Today is International Children’s Book Day – chosen to coincide with Hans Christian Andersen’s birthday ... such as The Snow Queen, The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling, The Emperor ...

Hans Christian Andersen produced some of the most beautiful and reverberant literary fairy tales in the world, about loss, love and longing. Gerda’s search for her brother Kay in The Snow Queen ...

No name is more famous in Danish literature than that of Hans Christian Andersen, a celebrated 19th-century author who penned iconic plays, novels and fairy tales such as “The Little Mermaid”, “The ...

As it turns out, Hans Christian Andersen did look a bit like Danny Kaye, the Hollywood comic prince who portrayed him in the schmaltzy biopic of 1952. Lanky, clown-footed and with eager, mobile ...