Hans Christian Andersen is the best-loved of all tellers of fairy tales.

This collection of over forty of Andersen's most popular stories includes The Mermaid, The Real Princess, The Red Shoes, The Little Match Girl, The Snow Queen, The Tinder Box, The Ugly Duckling and many more.

It is delightfully illustrated in black-and white by those remarkable brothers, Charles, Thomas and William Heath Robinson

This book is part of a book series called Wordsworth Childrens Classics .

There are 400 pages in this book. This is a short story book. This book was published 1993 by Wordsworth Editions Ltd .

Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was a Danish author and poet, most famous for his writing down of many timeless, classic fairy tales. He is Denmark's most famous author and his birthday is celebrated every year with a part called "Odin Story Day". Charles Robinson (1870 - 1937) is best known for his classic illustrations to fairy tales and other children's books, including Robert Louis Stevenson's Child's Garden of Verses and Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden. Johan David Wyss (1743 - 1818) was a Swiss author, best remembered for his classic book, The Swiss Family Robinson, which was said to have been inspired by Robinson Crusoe.