Other editions of book The Little Match Girl

The luminous art of three-time Caldecott Honor recipient Jerry Pinkney transforms the nineteenth-century Danish girl of Andersen's tale into a child plucked straight from America's melting pot, shedding new light on the invisibility of the poor among the prosperous-a circumstance as familiar in Andersen's day as it is in our own."[A] beautifully illustrated version of a classic tale."(Booklist, starred review)

“The Little Match Girl” is a short tale by Hans Christian Andersen which given a lovely ending in this charming adaptation by Tony Dalton. It tells the story of, on a cold New Year's Eve, a young, poor girl trying to sell matches in the street. Cold and shivering she is afraid to go home because her father will beat her for not selling any matches. Then, in this version, her life is changed by the intervention of an old man.