书名：Andersen's Fairy Tales 安徒生童话故事

难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数 1420L
作者：Hans Christian Andersen汉斯·克里斯汀·安徒生
出版社名称：Signet Classics
出版时间：2013
语种：英文 
ISBN：9780451532077
商品尺寸：10.6 x 2.6 x 17.5 cm
包装：平装
页数：384（以实物为准）

Andersen's Fairy Tales《安徒生童话故事》是一部经久不衰的童话合集，包括《海的女儿》《豌豆上的公主》《红鞋》《卖火柴的小女孩》《冰雪女王》《打火匣》《丑小鸭》等耳熟能详的作品。
本书为Signet Classics推出的英文原版，附插图，由Pat Shaw Iversen翻译，Joanne Greenberg作序和后记。书本小巧便携，内容完整无删减，适合9岁以上有一定英文水平的童话爱好者阅读。
推荐理由：
1.丹麦童话大师安徒生经典作品选集，是孩子成长必读的童话故事书；
2.童话充满神奇和想象，对丰富孩子的想象力有很大的帮助，本书选取的故事篇幅较短，语言通俗生动，并搭配插画，是一本很好的课外读物，也适合亲子阅读；
3.安徒生童话魅力无穷，以情动人，是一本可以从小读到老的书。
For more than 150 years, Hans Christian Andersen’s beloved fairy tales have charmed and entertained audiences around the world. Blending old folk tales with fantasy, the Danish bard’s stories are rich in humor and sharp with irony. The forty-seven fables in this beautifully translated collection tell of kings and princesses, of farm boys and mermaids, of witches and ogres. Some of the tales—like The Little Match Girl and The Emperor’s New Clothes—we know by heart. Others—like The Jumpers and The Flying Trunk—are sure to become instant favorites. Packed with memorable characters (who could forget the Ugly Duckling or the Little Mermaid?), Andersen’s fairy tales have withstood the test of time, delighting generation after generation of children and adults—and they promise to remain bedtime favorites for centuries to come…
Translated by Pat Shaw Iversen
With a New Introduction
And an Afterword by Joanne Greenberg
Illustrated with line drawings

汉斯·克里斯汀·安徒生（1805-1875），丹麦19世纪著名的童话作家，既是世界文学童话的代表人物之一，也是个虔诚的基督教徒，被誉为“世界儿童文学的太阳”，其生日（每年4月2日）被确定为“国际儿童图书日”。安徒生的作品被翻译成150多种语言在全世界出版，成千上万册童话书在全球陆续发行和出版，代表作有The Snow Queen《冰雪女王》、The Mermaid《海的女儿》、Thumbelina《拇指姑娘》、The Ugly Duckling《丑小鸭》等。
Hans Christian Andersen was born in 1805 in Odense, Denmark. His father was a poor cobbler, his mother nearly illiterate. At fourteen, armed with little more than sheer determination, Andersen went to Copenhagen, where he succeeded in winning the patronage of several prominent citizens, and acquired some formal schooling. In 1829, his poems, plays, and travel sketches began to appear. In 1835, his first novel, The Improvisatore, met with considerable success. That same year, he published his first collection of tales, to be followed over the years by further creations in a genre he made singularly his own.  His life was marked by extensive travels, enormous popularity, the friendship of many leading personalities of the era, and the highest honors of his native land. By the time of his death in 1875, this gauche, awkward figure, born in the humblest of circumstances, had enjoyed a career that might well have come out of one of his most imaginative tales.

Joanne Greenberg was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1932. She graduated from American University and presently teaches at the Colorado School of Mines. The author of many award-winning novels, including I Never Promised You a Rose Garden and In This Sign, she lives in Denver, Colorado. 

There was once a prince and he wanted a princess, but then she must bea real princess. He travelled right round the world to find one, but there was always something wrong. There were plenty of Princesses, but whether they were real princesses he had great difficulty in discovering; there was always something which was not quite right about them. So at last he had to come home again, and he was very sad because he wanted a real Princess so badly. 
One evening there was a terrible storm, it thundered and lightened and rain poured down in torrents; indeed it was a fearful night.
In the middle of the storm somebody knocked at the town gate, and the old king himself went to open it.