Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes: An All-Star Retelling of the Classic Fairy Tale

Title

en_US Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes: An All-Star Retelling of the Classic Fairy Tale

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US First edition

en_US Karen Kushell

Creator

en_US Andersen, H.C. See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Various

Date

2016-01-25T15:47:44Z

en_US 2013-07

en_US 1998

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:47:44Z

Date Issued

en_US 1998

Abstract

en_US This large-format book is a fascinating tour de force! Complete with an excellent CD read by outstanding actors and famous celebrities, it delves deeply into the story of the clothes that are not. Anchorman among the narrators is a moth, played by Jay Leno. Everybody and everything get into the act: advisors of every sort, the court wise man, holy man, and jester, the spinning wheel, spectacles, and mirror, and even the emperor's underwear! In one of the best lines in the book, the boy's mother tries to silence him by saying The clothes are flesh colored -- can't you see the pretty blue lines in the Empress's stockings? (59). Among the best illustrators are The Imperial Mirror (44) by Kinuko Y. Craft and The Honest Boy's Mother (58) by Fred Marcellino. General Norman Schwarzkopf is the narrator for The Imperial General (65), who turns the plot against the evil Prime Minister and his scoundrel weavers. The parade becomes a charade to expose them. I suspect that I am bending my definition of fable a bit to include this story. This lovely book is one of the reasons why I am bending. I will keep the CD with the book.

Identifier

en_US 9780156010696

en_US 9929 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76739

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Harcourt Brace & Company/Starlight Foundation

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PZ8.A542 Em 1998 See all items with this value

en_US One story See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole