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The Steadfast Tin Soldier
Hans Christian Anderson
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Description for The Steadfast Tin Soldier
Hardcover. A gorgeous, graphically compelling retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's classic story of love and fate by award-winning printmaker JooHee Yoon. Illustrator(s): Yoon, Joohee. Num Pages: 64 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: YFJ; YFW. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 225 x 281 x 11. Weight in Grams: 448.
The Steadfast Tin Soldier is the first story Andersen wrote without a folktale source or literary model, so it stands as a completely original work of the imagination, which changed the fairytale genre for all time. There were once five-and-twenty tin soldiers. They were all brothers, born of the same old tin spoon...All looked exactly alike except one. He looked a little different as he had been cast last of all. The tin was short, so he had only one leg...But just you see, he'll be the remarkable one. So begins Andersen's classic tale of good and evil; ... Read more
The Steadfast Tin Soldier is the first story Andersen wrote without a folktale source or literary model, so it stands as a completely original work of the imagination, which changed the fairytale genre for all time. There were once five-and-twenty tin soldiers. They were all brothers, born of the same old tin spoon...All looked exactly alike except one. He looked a little different as he had been cast last of all. The tin was short, so he had only one leg...But just you see, he'll be the remarkable one. So begins Andersen's classic tale of good and evil; ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781592702022
SKU
V9781592702022
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99-50
About Hans Christian Anderson
JooHee Yoon is an illustrator and printmaker committed to the art of bookmaking. She enjoys combining illustration with design whenever possible and using both traditional and industrial printing techniques for her projects. Rather than a single approach, she tries to match the tone of each project. She strives to create picture books that work on many levels and can be ... Read more
Reviews for The Steadfast Tin Soldier
Colored in bold reds, blacks, and grays, Yoon's angular mixed-media prints highlight the soldier's stoicism and the perils he faces.
STARRED REVIEW, Publishers Weekly
STARRED REVIEW, Publishers Weekly