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Die schönsten Märchen der Gebrüder Grimm, von Hans Christian Andersen und Wilhelm Hauff - Teil 2: Aschenputtel, Doktor Allwissend, Der Wolf und der Fuchs, Jorinde und Joringel, Der Zaunkönig , Brüderchen und Schwesterchen, Der Schweinehirt, Der Tannenbaum, Fünf aus einer Hülse, Das Liebespaar, Der Schmetterling, Die Hirtin und der Schornsteinfeger, Das kalte Herz, Tischleindeckdich, Goldesel, Knüppelausdemsack, Gevatter Tod, Simeliberg u.v.m.

Este cuento escrito por Hans Christian Andersen trata sobre un patito más grande, torpe y feo que sus hermanitos, por lo que era objeto de las burlas de los demás animales de la granja. Después de muchas peripecias, el patito descubre al mirar su reflejo en el lago, que su aspecto ha sufrido una gran transformación.

"The Snow Queen" (Danish: Snedronningen) is an original fairy tale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. The tale was first published 21 December 1844 in New Fairy Tales. First Volume. Second Collection. 1845. (Danish: Nye Eventyr. Første Bind. Anden Samling. 1845.) The story centres on the struggle between good and evil as experienced by Gerda and her friend, Kai. The story is one of Andersen's longest and most highly acclaimed stories.

"The Ugly Duckling" is a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. When the tale begins, a mother duck's eggs hatch. One of the little birds is perceived by the other birds and animals on the farm as a homely little creature and suffers much verbal and physical abuse from them. He wanders sadly from the barnyard and lives with wild ducks and geese until hunters slaughter the flocks. He finds a home with an old woman but her cat and hen tease him mercilessly and again he sets off on his own. He sees a flock of migrating wild swans; he is delighted and excited but he cannot join them for he is too young and cannot fly.

Tim, un niño de nueve años recibe de regalo un batallón de soldaditos, pero solo uno de ellos poseía una sola pierna. El soldadito se enamora perdidamente de una bailarina en la caja de juguetes de Tim, pero deberá sortear un sin números de aventuras para poder sellar su amor.

The Emperor of China learns that one of the most beautiful things in his empire is the song of the nightingale. When he orders the nightingale brought to him, a kitchen maid leads the court to a nearby forest, where the nightingale agrees to appear at court, where it remains as the Emperor's favorite. When the Emperor is given a bejeweled mechanical bird he loses interest in the real nightingale, who returns to the forest. The mechanical bird eventually breaks down; and the Emperor is taken deathly ill a few years later. The real nightingale learns of the Emperor's condition and returns to the palace; whereupon Death is so moved by the nightingale's song that he allows the Emperor to live.

It is in the hot countries that the sun burns down in earnest, turning the people there a deep mahogany-brown. In the hottest countries of all they are seared into negroes, but it was not quite that hot in this country to which a man of learning had come from the colder north. He expected to go about there just as he had at home, but he soon discovered that this was a mistake. He and other sensible souls had to stay inside. The shutters were drawn and the doors were closed all day long. It looked just as if everyone were asleep or away from home.

Joanna Lumley reads "The Snow Queen". One day, a diabolical troll builds a mirror that shows everything that is beautiful as ugly and all that is good as evil. Delighted, the trolls decided to carry this mirror to heaven and mock the angels, but on their way the mirror breaks and shatters into hundreds of pieces that spread across the world. Some bigger pieces are turned into windows and others are made into spectacles, but some of tiniest bits get stuck into people’s eyes or in their heart, changing their life for ever.

Rien de mieux pour s'endormir qu'une sélection de contes par les plus grands auteurs, pour emporter l'imagination vers le monde des rêves. La voix accueillante de Fabienne Prost installe les enfants dans un moment de calme et de sérénité, et les contes, entre classiques et pièces plus rares, les introduisent au plaisir de la narration.

This is a story from the Thumbelina and Other Fairy Tales collection.

After saving a prince from drowning, a mermaid princess embraces a life of extreme self-sacrifice to win his love and gain an immortal soul. Over a century after its first publication, Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid persists as one of the world’s most enduring works of fantasy for children. This edition showcases the world-famous translation of H. B. Paull.

Relembre os contos preferidos da sua infância ou apresente a um pequeno leitor o mundo mágico de um dos melhores contadores de história: Hans Christian Andersen. Quase dois séculos depois de serem publicados pela primeira vez, os contos de Andersen permanecem como contos de bem e mal, amor e perda, e lealdade em face a grandes dificuldades. Eles estão ao alcance das crianças, mas também apresentam lições de virtude para os adultos também, pois abordam temas que ultrapassam idades e nacionalidades.

Op een dag maakte een duivelse trol een spiegel die alles wat mooi was als lelijk deed verschijnen, en alles wat goed was als kwaad. Verrukt besloten de trollen om hun spiegel naar de hemel te brengen en de spot te drijven met de engelen, maar onderweg barstte de spiegel en de scherven verspreidden zich over de wereld. Zo werden sommige scherven ramen en werden andere scherven brillen, maar de meest onfortuinlijke mensen kregen kleine scherfjes in hun ogen of in hun hart, waardoor hun leven voor altijd zou veranderen.

This is a story from the Thumbelina and Other Fairy Tales collection.

Newly re-mastered for digital formats, this is the definitive recording of Hans Christian Andersen's six best-loved stories. Narrator Diane Wolkstein, the artistic director of the Hans Christian Andersen Center in New York City, tells Andersen stories throughout the world. She is the author of 23 award-winning books of folklore and has been honored by the National Storytelling Network as a recipient of its coveted Circle of Excellence Award, a designation reserved for America's best living storytellers.

Cinderella, Rapunzel, Snow white, The Little Match Girl, Thumbelina, The Little Mermaid. Fables, folktales and stories play a fundamental part in children's development. They use powerful imagery and symbols to entertain while conveying essential moral teachings; the stories ignite imagination, taking a firm root in children's minds, and gently initiate them to the essential moral principles of life. Our tales and stories have been carefully selected for their wisdom and power of evocation. Discover or rediscover, narrated in a warm and lively way, the best stories for kids in Chinese Mandarin.

The Princess and the Pea is the story of a prince who wishes to marry a princess but is having difficulty finding a suitable wife. One night a young woman who claims to be a princess arrives at the palace, so the prince's mother decides to test their unexpected guest by placing a pea under her bed, covered by 20 feather mattresses. In the morning, the guest tells her hosts that she had a sleepless night, kept awake by something hard in the bed. So the two are married because only a real princess would be sensitive enough to feel a pea through so much bedding.

This unique presentation combines classic children's favorites with an anthology of stories, poems, and songs of the holiday season.

Thumbelina is a classic Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale about a tiny girl no bigger than a thumb snatched from her family by an ugly toad who wants to marry her. Thumbelina escapes, befriending various creatures of the forest, until one day, she meets the king of the flower angels, with whom she finds happiness forever.

The storks tell many, many stories to their young ones, all about the bogs and marshes. In general each story is suited to the age and sense of the little storks. While the youngest ones are satisfied with, "Kribble-krabble, plurry-murry," and think it a very fine story, the older ones demand something with more sense to it, or at least something about the family.