The Little Mermaid - Softcover

Andersen, Hans Christian

 
9781782692492: The Little Mermaid
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1782692495 ISBN 13: 9781782692492
Verlag: Pushkin Children's Books, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

A beautifully illustrated new translation of a beloved Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale

Six young sisters live in the depths of the ocean, longing for the chance to see the beauty of the earth. Most eager of all is the youngest mermaid, who counts the days to her fifteenth birthday when her grandmother will finally allow her to rise to the surface.

Her first sight above the water is a large ship on which a beautiful prince is celebrating his sixteenth birthday. Immediately she falls in love, and so begins her determined quest to join the prince on earth as a human.

Full of wonder and heart, The Little Mermaid remains one of the most powerful fairy tales ever written, and this new, gorgeously illustrated translation gives it renewed life.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was born in Odense, Denmark, the son of a poor shoemaker. The king helped to pay for his education, enabling him to become a short-story writer, novelist and playwright. He remains best known for his fairy tales, which include The Red Shoes, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Little Mermaid and The Ugly Duckling. Pushkin Children's also publishes The Snow Queen and The Wild Swans.

Helen Crawford-White lives and works by the sea. She designs covers, illustrates books and creates websites.

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Far out at sea, the water is as blue as cornflower
petals and as clear as the purest glass. Yet it’s very deep—
deeper than the reach of any anchor rope. You’d have to
stack a lot of steeples on top of each other to reach from
the bottom to the surface. And down at the bottom is
where the sea folk live.
Now, you mustn’t think that the sea floor is only bare
white sand—no, because the most marvellous trees and
plants grow there. Their leaves and stems are so flexible,
the smallest movement of water makes them sway as if
they were dancing. All the fish, big and small, flit through
their branches, just like birds in the air up here. In the
deepest spot of all stands the palace of the Sea King. Its
walls are coral and its high pointed windows the clearest
amber, while the roof is made of clamshells that open
and close with the current. It looks magnificent, because
in each shell there are glistening pearls, and any one of
them would be the pride of a queen’s crown.
The Sea King had been widowed for many years,
and his old mother ran the royal household. She was a
wise mermaid, though proud of her high rank; so she
paraded about with twelve oysters on her tail, while the
other mermaids at court could only have six. But she was
admirable in all other things, especially her affection for
the young sea princesses—her granddaughters. There were
six of these lovely princesses, but the youngest was the
most beautiful of all. Her skin glowed like a rose petal and
her eyes were as blue as the deepest sea. And just like her
sisters, she had no feet, for her body ended in a fish’s tail.
All day long they played in the great palace halls, where
living flowers grew from the walls. When they threw open
the tall amber windows, the fish would swim inside, just
as swallows fly through our windows when we open them.
But these fish swam right over to the little princesses, ate
from their hands and let themselves be petted.
Outside the palace lay a large garden with trees that
were fiery red and navy blue. The fruit shone like gold
and the flowers looked like burning flames, their stems
and leaves forever flickering. The ground was the finest
sand, but it was the blue colour of sulphur when it burns.
Everything was bathed in a wonderful azure glow, so that
you might imagine you were high in the air, gazing only
at the sky above and below you, rather than at the ocean
floor. When the sea was calm, you could glimpse the
crimson flower that all the light seemed to be streaming
from—the sun.

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Verlag
Pushkin Children's Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1782692495
ISBN 13 
9781782692492
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
57
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