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Title
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Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes: An All-Star Retelling of the Classic Fairy Tale
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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This book has a dust jacket (book cover)
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First edition
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Karen Kushell
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Creator
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Andersen, H.C.
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Contributor
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Various
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Date
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2016-01-25T15:47:44Z
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2013-07
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1998
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T15:47:44Z
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Date Issued
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1998
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Abstract
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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.
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Identifier
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9780156010696
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9929 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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Harcourt Brace & Company/Starlight Foundation
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New York
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Subject
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PZ8.A542 Em 1998
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One story
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Type
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Book, Whole