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Before you is a timeless classic that will never cease to warm your heart and fill the long winter evenings with anticipated wonders and merry celebrations. This collection of Christmas stories by famous authors is the best gift for the holidays. These festive stories range from touching and magical to funny and sad. They include the best classic works of literature; whose themes involve the nativity and the magic of Christmas. Prepare yourself to experience true holiday magic and create new Christmas traditions as you read through these classics year after year.

The tale follows a barefoot girl trying to sell matchsticks on a frigid New Year’s Eve. As the night grows colder, she lights the matches for warmth and has visions of her dead grandmother. Feel the cold seep into your bones as you hear this tale that has haunted listeners for over a century.

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.

In The Little Match Girl, a barefoot girl tries unsuccessfully to make money for her family by selling matches on the street. Afraid to go home empty-handed and face her father’s wrath, she decides to take shelter in an alley for the night and lights matches to keep herself warm. The harsh realism of this story reminds listeners to be grateful and kind during the cold holiday season.

L'empereur de Chine, qui ne quitte jamais les limites de son palais, ignore qu'il existe un peu plus loin, au-delà de ses jardins maniérés, des lacs profonds et des bois touffus que les gens du peuple connaissent bien.

A jealous and evil queen casts a dreadful spell over her 12 stepchildren - she exiles her beautiful stepdaughter, Elise, and turns her 11 stepsons into wild swans. Princess Elise sets out to find her brothers and release them from the spell, but finds that she must perform a nearly impossible task to carry out the rescue - create coats of mail out of sharp nettles for each of her brothers, and not speak a word the entire time. Even the love of a king - and the treachery of his adviser - must not deter her from her task. Sigourney Weaver narrates this beautiful version of one of Hans Christian Andersen's most compelling tales.

Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales is an enchanting collection, retold by writer and critic Naomi Lewis, and contains twelve of Hans Christian Andersen's magnificent stories, including Thumbelina, a little girl no more than a thumb-joint high, The Emperor's New Clothes, the tale of a man who cares only for his appearance and The Little Mermaid, who longs to one day marry a human prince.

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.

Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to children, but present lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well. This title is part of Andersen's Fairy Tales, Volume 2, published by Dreamscape Media. LLC.

安徒生是丹麦著名童话作家，世界文学童话创始人。《安徒生童话》中闪耀着的人性光辉，超越了国家、种族与文化的界线，是世界各地一代又一代读者的挚爱。…… 安徒生是丹麥著名童話作家，世界文學童話創始人。《安徒生童話》中閃耀著的人性光輝，超越了國家、種族與文化的界線，是世界各地一代又一代讀者的摯愛。

La petite Sirène habite sous la mer, dans le château de son père. Depuis sa plus tendre enfance, son rêve est de se rendre là-haut, au pays des hommes. Mais, pour cela, il lui faut attendre sa quinzième année. Enfin, le jour tant attendu arrive. "Lorsque sa tête apparut à la surface de la mer, le soleil venait de se coucher ; mais les nuages brillaient encore comme des roses et de l'or, et l'étoile du soir étincelait au milieu du ciel. L'air était doux et frais, la mer paisible. Près de la petite sirène se trouvait un navire à trois mâts ; il n'avait qu'une voile dehors, à cause du calme, et les matelots étaient assis sur les vergues et sur les cordages.

La petite sirène est la plus belle princesse des fonds marins, et chaque mot qui sort de sa bouche sonne comme une chanson mélodieuse...

Here's Anderson's wonderful story of the power of persuasion.

Christmas has arrived! Get comfy and settle down to a collection of cheery Christmas bedtime stories, that will have your child drifting off to a deep slumber to dream about Santa Claus and snow.

A collection of some of your favourite quick short stories for young listeners. Brought to life to allow you to settle your kids down whether it is for bedtime, long journeys or just to keep them occupied whilst you go about your daily chores.

A collection of entertaining stories for every young adventurer. These stories are perfect for families to listen to in the car, in the airport, on the train or on the way to your next family adventure!

"Dornröschen", "Rotkäppchen", "Die kleine Meerjungfrau", "Baba Jaga" und viele andere... Die schönsten Märchen aus dem großen Diogenes-Märchenbuch als Hörbuch. Mit den bekanntesten Märchen aus Westeuropa, Osteuropa, der Brüder Grimm und von Hans Christian Andersen ...

We understand how hard it can be for young children with dyslexia to get into books, which is why we have produced this collection of entertaining classic short stories to help your little one enjoy the magic of stories from authors such as Beatrix Potter, The Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen. Building on personal experience, this collection will help your little one enjoy some of the most entertaining children's stories that have been loved for generations.

Een verzameling van de mooiste sprookjes, fabels en andere vertellingen, met in dit seizoen: De wijze kever, De Chinese nachtegaal, De vis en de ring, Meneer en mevrouw Azijn, De lantaarn en de waaier, Waarom de papegaai de woorden van mensen herhaalt.

When a Mother Duck's brood of little ducklings hatch from their eggs, all of them are adorable except for one. The Ugly Duckling is large, grey, awkward and doesn't fit in with the rest of the animals. A dangerous adventure awaits him with a surprise he was not expecting...