Award-winning author Tor Seidler and the incomparable illustrator Fred Marcellino retell Hans Christian Anderson’s classic Christmas tale about a tin solder who is separated from the paper ballerina he loves in this stunning picture book that’s perfect for gift-giving. True love blossoms between a handsome one-legged tin soldier and a graceful paper ballerina, posed in arabesque. But when a jealous goblin pushes the soldier out a window, the soldier embarks on a journey through storm drains, past toll-collecting rats, into canals, and inside a fish before finding his way back with his beloved ballerina.
The perilous adventures of a toy soldier who loves a paper dancing girl culminate in tragedy for both of them.
A terrible mishap sends the Tin Soldier on a journey that would test the bravest of hearts. This touching story features new artwork by noted children's illustrator Lemoine. Full-color illustrations. (Available now)
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Hans Christian Andersen's powerful and haunting tale describes how a one-legged tin soldier falls in love with a proud dancer from the same toy collection.
Or something like that. "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a tin soldier's love for a paper ballerina. After several adventures, the tin soldier perishes in a fire with the ballerina.
He's just a toy soldier - but he falls out of a window and has a wild adventure! Follow the story of the brave soldier in words and pictures.
After unwittingly awakening the wrath of a vampire on the World War I battlefields, Lord Henry Baltimore vows to vanquish the evil that he has unleashed on the world, in an illustrated tale of the paranormal that serves as an allegory for ...
Hans Christian Andersen. age of twenty to further his career.. Bayes attended Heatherleys Art School, and began receiving professional commissions before he graduated. Over the course of the rest of his life, Bayes exhibited in both the ...
The perilous adventures of a toy soldier who loves a paper dancing girl culminate in tragedy for both of them.
After being accidentally launched on a dangerous and terrible voyage, a one-legged soldier finds his way back to his true love--a paper dancing girl, and a young girl feels a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds and proves ...