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Title
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en_US
The Emperor's New Clothes
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Start-Right Elf Books
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Description
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en_US
This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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Hans Christian Andersen
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Creator
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Hans Christian Andersen
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Contributor
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en_US
Leaf, Anne Sellers
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Date
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2016-05-09T19:54:27Z
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2015-07
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1968
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Date Available
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2016-05-09T19:54:27Z
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Date Issued
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1968
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Abstract
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This emperor spends all his money on new clothes. He thinks only of driving in the park to show off his clothes. He has a costume for every hour of the day. The supposed weavers tell people that the clothes made of their material become invisible to anyone unfit for his office or just stupid. Is it logical for the emperor to think that by wearing such clothes he can tell the wise from the stupid? He sends his honest minister to take a look. Everybody in the city is eager to see how bad or how stupid his neighbor is. Again, is that logical? Advisors admiring the "cloth" advise the emperor to have a suit made of it for the procession soon to take place. The weavers dress him in his new suit. This emperor wears long underwear throughout. A little child at the procession says "He's only in his underwear!" "The emperor had a queer feeling, for it seemed to him that they were right. Then he thought, 'I must bear up to the end.'" There is never an admission of folly and we do not learn what happens to the deceiving weavers. Leaf's art is of a piece with her illustrations for Aesop's fables.
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Identifier
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en_US
10800 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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Rand McNally & Company
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Chicago
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Subject
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PZ8.A542Empr 1968
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Emperor
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole