The Emperor's New Clothes

Title

en_US The Emperor's New Clothes

en_US Sommer-Time Story Classics

en_US STSC 5

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US First edition

en_US Retold by Carl Sommer

Creator

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

Contributor

en_US Noe, Ignacio

Date

2016-01-25T15:38:08Z

en_US 2014-08

en_US 2014

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:38:08Z

Date Issued

en_US 2014

Abstract

en_US The back cover advertises this and the other books of this series as award-winning motivational character-building picture books. The overall series, Sommer-Time Story Series, has won over forty national awards. The front cover promises fun but mentions also fairness, citizenship, and honesty. This version of the story paints a picture of a vain and self-centered emperor. Max and Rex come proclaiming that their clothes are invisible to anyone who is unfit for office. These garments can be used as a test to discover who is fit for serving the emperor (10). The emperor even thinks that when he is wearing the clothes, he will discover who is unfit to serve him. A nice touch has Max and Rex praising the lightness of the new clothes: Wearing them will make anyone feel as if he is wearing nothing (23). What little Frederick says here is Your Majesty, I see you in your underwear (27). For that honesty, he gets trained as a future prime minister, and his family comes to live in the palace. The emperor has something of a conversion. From now on he wants people to tell him the truth, even when it is painful. The face of this emperor is excellent, starting right from the cover! The best of the pictures shows the emperor's joy over his new clothes as he stands in his underwear on 24. This particular series, Sommer-Time Story Classics, contains some twelve fable books. This library edition has a cloth reinforced binding and is very sturdy. There are also video and read-along versions of these books with sound effects, and there are free online helps too.

Identifier

en_US 9781575370811 (library binding : alk. paper)

en_US 10147 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76135

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Advance Publishing

en_US Honesdale, PA

Subject

en_US PZ8.S4187 Em 2014 See all items with this value

en_US One story See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole