Other editions of book The Snow Queen

Hans Christian Andersen's greatest tale is stunningly illustrated by award winning artist P. J. Lynch The classic story of Kay, the little boy whose heart and eye are pierced by a splinter of glass and who turns against his playmate, Gerda. When Kay is carried off by the beautiful but cruel Snow Queen to her frozen palace, brave Gerda sets off to find him and bring him home. But will she be able to rescue him in time?

Kai and Gerda are friends and neighbors. They have been playmates since they were very young and love to explore the garrets of their adjoining houses. When a splinter from a troll's evil mirror gets into Kai's eye, he suddenly becomes angry and unkind.When Kai disappears the following winter and is presumed dead, Gerda is distraught and goes out to find her friend. She soon learns that Kai has been taken by a Snow Queen, who is keeping the boy in her far-away palace. Gerda is not deterred, and undertakes a journey of danger and adventure to save Kai.This story of friendship, redemption, and growing up is one of Hans Christian Andersen's longest and most admired tales. Told in seven "stories," this classic about two children struggling between good and evil is as timeless as it is touching.This edition by Lark Publishing contains the original story, as well as illustrations by Harry Clarke.

Reprinted here for the first time since the 19th century, these color illustrations by T. Pym make the classic Andersen fairy tale even more magical. One of Andersen's best-beloved tales, The Snow Queen is a story about the strength and endurance of childhood friendship. Gerda's search for her playmate Kay–who was abducted by the Snow Queen and taken to her frozen palace–is brought to life in delicate and evocative illustrations.

A classic translation of one of the world's greatest fairy tales €” a magical story of a young girl's quest to save the boy she loves.When Kay is lured from his home by the beautiful, cruel Snow Queen, his friend Gerda sets out on an epic journey to rescue him. As she searches, she encounters a series of strangers to whom she relays her plight. Charmed by her story and her innocence, each of them helps Gerda, so that at last she is able to find the Snow Queen's icy palace. But at the end of her epic journey, will Gerda manage to set Kay free? Soft, ethereal artwork and a faithful translation set the mood for a keepsake edition of Andersen's much-loved winter's tale.

"The Snow Queen" is one of Hans Christian Andersen's longest and most highly acclaimed stories.This fairy tale is regularly included in selected collections and is frequently reprinted in illustrated storybook editions for children.The devil, in the form of an evil troll, has made a magic mirror that distorts the appearance of everything that it reflects and magnifies their bad and ugly aspects. The devil, attempt to carry the mirror into the Kingdom of Heaven in order to make fools of the beings from that world, but the higher they lifted the mirror, the more the mirror shakes with laughter, and so it happened to slip from their grasp and falls back to Earth, shattering into small pieces like grains of sand blown by the wind all over our world.That is why it happens for many people to see just the ugly aspects and to think of bad things to do because these splinters get into people's hearts and eyes.There was only one way to get it out and this is the idea of "The Snow Queen" fairy tale of the little boy Karl and his little girl friend, named Gretchen that saved her little friend by the power of her love.At the end, the grandmother reads a passage against cynicism, one of the many mirror’s splinters our society have to throw away.

Gerda and Kay are the best of friends. They live across an alley from each other and happily chat, play, and tend their lovely rose garden. The children are happy until tragedy strikes Kay. His eye and heart are pierced with fragments of a mirror, and the loving boy Gerda knew vanishes. The Snow Queen has put him under her spell and taken him to her palace of snow and ice. It is up to Gerda to find him and bring him home to the love that awaits him.In this timeless storybook, Ken Setterington has captured the haunting beauty of the classic tale of love’s ability to conquer the coldest, most damaged heart. The book is illustrated with the delicate traditional cut paper art of scherenschnitt, which Hans Christian Andersen himself practiced.