First two titles in a new series of best-loved Hans Christian Andersen stories, now in the Orchard Fairy Tales format. Each book contains two stories: THE LITTLE MERMAID / THE PRINCESS AND THE PEA THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES / THE TINDER BOX These direct, accessible retellings by Andrew Matthews are pacy and full of humour, and ideal for 7-9 year olds. Forming a useful teaching resource of traditional tales, they are perfectly complemented by Peter Bailey's classic can humorous illustrations.
This book features in the following series: Hans Andersen, Orchard Fairy Tales .
There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2001 by Hachette Children's Group .
Andrew Matthews is a celebrated children's author, who has written over fifty books and has twice been nominated for the Smarties prize. Peter Bailey has been illustrating books for more than thirty-five years and has worked with many of today's best known authors, including Philip Pullman, Allan Ahlberg, Michael Morpurgo and Joan Aiken. He lives near Liverpool with his wife, Sian, who is also an illustrator.
This book contains the following story:
The Emperor's New Clothes
Once upon a time there lived an emperor who loved clothes and was extremely vain. I must have a new outfit for the royal procession and I need it to be designed by someone totally splendid, he demanded of his butler. The emperor was warned that a new outfit would be very expensive and there wasnt really much money to spare for new togs, but he was adamant. The palace put out a proclamation asking that splendid fashion designers put themselves forth for interview to design a royal outfit for the royal procession. A pair of chancers thought they would give it a go. They flattered the emperor to such an extent they managed to convince him that no clothes at all were an outfit fit for a king that and visible only to clever people. On the day of the royal procession no-one dared tell the emperor that he was starkers for fear of being accused that they were stupid. But the truth was in any case revealed when a little boy shouted Oh my, the emperor has no clothes on!.
