3321 Author Profile: Hans Christian Anderson

The author that I decided to speak about this week is Hans Christian Andersen. This Danish author wrote classic children’s stories and poems. He is an oldie, born April 2, 1805 and died August 4, 1875, but definitely a goody! Some of his most famous fairy tales include “The Little Mermaid”, “Thumbelina”, and “The Ugly Duckling” just to name a few. His stories are readily available to us and can go well in the classroom especially since many have been made into motion pictures, plays, ballets, and animated films and they have been translated into 150 + languages! A great gook that I found is called Hans Christian Anderson: The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories and it is an accumulation of all of his works into one book. Due to the fact that he has written so many pieces, it is over 1,000 pages but I think that it would be a great piece for a teacher to have that could be used for read alouds and story time. You can purchase it for only $16.32 off of Amazon! Here is a cool website that I found on Hans Christian Anderson http://hca.gilead.org.il/ and it has all sorts of information varying from his life, to detailed information on his works and links to the actual stories. It was pretty neat and could be used for all sorts of things!