Andersen draws us into his world, through his remarkable gift of descriptive narration. In Mermaid, we are invited into the unseen world through the comparison of the invisible to the commonplace that we experience in our daily lives:
"far out to sea the water is as blue as the petals on the loveliest cornflower and as clear as purest glass..."
Similarly, he begins the narration of Snow Queen with an incident which we all can relate to through the imagery of a immense mirror being flown into the heavens. The association of words relating a splinter of glass to an eyelash or hair caught in an eye, creates the credibility fo the story. We believe, because we know the ordeal of trying to remove the foreign object from the eye and the hours of swollen eyes, the blurred, painful vision that resulted. We know intimately the sharp pain of dust particles grating against the tender surface of the eye. We suffer with Kay in his blindness and we sympathize with gerda in her long search through the world to recover the precious companionship of her childhood. We know the tingle of numb hands and the screaming pain of swollen frozen fingers. And like children, we are bewitched and entranced by the annual winter sports and festivals, dreaming of racing away in the Snow Queen's sleigh.
Meghans Fairytales http://live-artist.com/fairytales/snwq1.... moved 4 December introduction to the pages
The Snow Queen" translated by Naomi Lewis, Illustrated by Angela Barrett illustration copyright 1988
Part 1 The Mirror http://www.live-artist.com/fairytales/sn...
Part 2 Kay and Gerda http://www.live-artist.com/fairytales/sn...
Part 3 The Flower Garden and the Woman Who Could Conjure http://www.live-artist.com/fairytales/sn...
Part 4 The Prince and The Princess http://www.live-artist.com/fairytales/sn...
Part 5 The Little Robber-Girl http://www.live-artist.com/fairytales/sn...
Part 6 The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman http://www.live-artist.com/fairytales/sn...
Part 7 The Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There at Last http://www.live-artist.com/fairytales/sn...
Snow Queen Adrienne Segur illus http://www.datadesignsb.com/books/snowqu...
Art Passions: Segur http://www.artpassions.net/segur/segur.h... illustrations by Segur
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Suggested Fairytale Classics http://www.datadesignsb.com/books/fairyt... page with suggested classic fairytale books listed for beautiful gifts
Guardian Unlimited: Prague Clock in the Old Town Square http://travel.guardian.co.uk/gallery/ima... photo by Philip Greenspun
The Christmas Market at Old Town Square http://www.abaka.com/Czech/Prague_galler...
Prague Experience: Christmas Market in Prague http://www.pragueexperience.com/events/h...
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