Seorang gadis miskin berjalan bertelanjang kaki sambil menjajakan korek apinya di malam tahun baru yang beku bersalju. Dia menyalakan sebatang kore...
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Dec 23, 2009
Ceridwen
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I spent some time looking for the edition my grandmother read to me as a child, but I eventually realized that whatever she read from – probably a collection of Andersen's stories – had no pictures. They were all in my mind. This astonishes me now, because I can see it all: the girl's blue and black feet, the windows shagged with ice, the Christmas goose and the tree lit, dangerously, by a hundred wax candles, the way those images flicker in the match-light, guttering against the alley wall.
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Jul 07, 2011
Mia Queen
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Bagi angkatan 80’an seperti saya di mana jaman SD bacaan hanya berkisar donal bebek, komik Nina dan kumpulan dongeng tentunya nama Hans Christian Andersen melekat kuat di ingatan kita. Kisah tragis gadis korek api, cinta putri duyung yang bertepuk sebelah tangan, perjalanan hidup gadis mungil Thumbelina adalah beberapa karyanya yang sangat terkenal dan sudah diterjemahkan dalam berbagai bahasa di dunia.
Kali ini penerbit Atria mengemas 10 kisah H.C. Andersen dalam satu kumpulan dongen More...
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Oct 12, 2010
Abigail
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The Little Match Girl, illustrated by Rachel Isadora.
Den Lille Pige med Svovlstikkerne, literally "The Little Girl with Sulfur Sticks," is one of Andersen's original tales, and follows the heartbreaking story of a poor young match-seller who freezes to death on New Year's Eve. Unable to return home until she has sold her wares, the girl huddles in the shadows of a building, trying to keep warm. Gradually, one by one, she lights her matches, seeing visions of all the delight More...
Den Lille Pige med Svovlstikkerne, literally "The Little Girl with Sulfur Sticks," is one of Andersen's original tales, and follows the heartbreaking story of a poor young match-seller who freezes to death on New Year's Eve. Unable to return home until she has sold her wares, the girl huddles in the shadows of a building, trying to keep warm. Gradually, one by one, she lights her matches, seeing visions of all the delight More...
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May 24, 2010
Chandra
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I'm a big HC Andersen fan, but this just isn't a favorite. I personally love tragic and disturbing so I'm really not sure what the disconnect is. But even though it's not a personal hit I would still recommend it for sharing with children who have an appreciation for melodrama. This is one of those stories that seems to really enthrall some children - taking root in their subconscious and helping them contemplate realities different from their own. But, I'm just a grown up fuddy duddy and it
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Nov 06, 2011
Amy Louise
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Use to read this book all the time when I was a child... even though it always made me cry.
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Oct 12, 2010
Abigail
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The Little Match Girl, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney.
The Little Match Girl - Andersen's tragic tale of a poor young match-seller who freezes to death one New Year's Eve - is transplanted from Denmark to the United States in Jerry Pinkney's lovely retelling. Set in an American city, sometime in the early twentieth century, the narrative follows its young heroine as she dodges carriages and automobiles, threading her way through a busy market, and trying to sell her matches and paper fl More...
The Little Match Girl - Andersen's tragic tale of a poor young match-seller who freezes to death one New Year's Eve - is transplanted from Denmark to the United States in Jerry Pinkney's lovely retelling. Set in an American city, sometime in the early twentieth century, the narrative follows its young heroine as she dodges carriages and automobiles, threading her way through a busy market, and trying to sell her matches and paper fl More...
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Oct 12, 2010
Abigail
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The Little Match Girl, illustrated by Anastassija Archipowa.
Originally published in 1845, as part of the Dansk Folkekalender for 1846, Anderson's tale of The Little Match Girl - in which a young match-seller freezes to death one wintry night - is an original fairy-tale set in the (then) present-day, rather than some mythical past. I am always reminded, when reading it, of Andersen's great admiration for the English author Charles Dickens, as it is clearly a work of overt social comme More...
Originally published in 1845, as part of the Dansk Folkekalender for 1846, Anderson's tale of The Little Match Girl - in which a young match-seller freezes to death one wintry night - is an original fairy-tale set in the (then) present-day, rather than some mythical past. I am always reminded, when reading it, of Andersen's great admiration for the English author Charles Dickens, as it is clearly a work of overt social comme More...
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Dec 10, 2009
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Feb 02, 2012
Rahmatika
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Saya selalu menyukai kisah dongeng maupun legenda. Kisah-kisah semacam itu biasanya penuh dengan hal-hal yang menggugah imajinasi dan juga rasa ingin tahu saya. Begitu juga ketika saya membaca buku ini. Saya menyimpan harapan besar untuk dapat menikmati setiap kisah yang tertulis di tiap lembarnya, tapi ternyata saya salah...
Buku yang baru saja saya baca berjudul "Gadis Korek Api dan Dongeng-dongeng lainnya" yang ditulis oleh bapak dongeng dunia, Hans Christian Andersen. Be More...
Buku yang baru saja saya baca berjudul "Gadis Korek Api dan Dongeng-dongeng lainnya" yang ditulis oleh bapak dongeng dunia, Hans Christian Andersen. Be More...
Mar 11, 2009
Melody
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Illustrator: Rachel Isadora
Publisher: Putnam Juvenille
Date of Publication: 1987
Genre: Drama
Reading Level: Ages 4-8, Preschool to 3rd grade. Older children and adults will enjoy this also. It will touch the lives of everyone.
Themes: Fear, Relief, Contentment, Courage
Curricula Use: teach children about tragedy, courage, grace
Social Issues: Poverty
Text and Pictures: Pictures tell the story right along with the text. The Illustrato More...
Publisher: Putnam Juvenille
Date of Publication: 1987
Genre: Drama
Reading Level: Ages 4-8, Preschool to 3rd grade. Older children and adults will enjoy this also. It will touch the lives of everyone.
Themes: Fear, Relief, Contentment, Courage
Curricula Use: teach children about tragedy, courage, grace
Social Issues: Poverty
Text and Pictures: Pictures tell the story right along with the text. The Illustrato More...
Jun 20, 2007
علی
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This is the first of Andersen I've ever read. It was in our school book when I was in 3d class in primary school. We could cry for her, selling matches at Christmas Eve.
دخترک کبریت فروش، یکی از قصه های کتاب فارسی سال سوم دبستان دوره ی ما بود.
دخترک کبریت فروش، یکی از قصه های کتاب فارسی سال سوم دبستان دوره ی ما بود.
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Dec 02, 2007
Beth Ann
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I remember this one! I remember being disturbed by it, and I remember my sister performing a play where she WAS the little match girl, and I remember it making me THINK even as a little girl. And for that it deserves credit.
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Jun 16, 2011
Theresa
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She didn't sell any matches that day. This is something that adds to the sadness of the day described in this classic tale written down in history by Hans Christian Andersen. What she sees makes her happy, and in the end the Little Match Girl does find a sort of happiness.
Because it is a classic tale, there are many versions of this book with many different illustrators. In this version, the illustrations help to connect the reader to the character, even though the audience barely More...
Because it is a classic tale, there are many versions of this book with many different illustrators. In this version, the illustrations help to connect the reader to the character, even though the audience barely More...
Oct 15, 2009
The picture on the front and back cover of the book has a border around it. Just like all of the pages in the book have a border around them. I think maybe the illustrator did these to have consistency with each page. The rest of the pages have words on one page and a picture on the other. It has sort of a rhymn to it. It would be very easy book to read because you would know right where the words were on each page. I think the illustrated did a great job with the colors in the book. She’s usin
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Feb 07, 2010
Project Gutenberg has a free ebook and audiobook of a Hans Christian Andersen book with 18 fairy tales in it.
These are the stories in the Project Gutenberg files:
-- The emperor's new clothes
-- The swineherd
-- The real princess
-- The shoes of fortune
-- The fir tree
-- The snow queen
-- The leap-frog
-- The elderbush
-- The bell
-- The old house
-- The happy family
-- The story of a mother
-- The false More...
These are the stories in the Project Gutenberg files:
-- The emperor's new clothes
-- The swineherd
-- The real princess
-- The shoes of fortune
-- The fir tree
-- The snow queen
-- The leap-frog
-- The elderbush
-- The bell
-- The old house
-- The happy family
-- The story of a mother
-- The false More...
Oct 15, 2009
Grabbing this book and looking at the front of it the girl seems creepy on it. I looked at it for awhile and couldn’t decide if I wanted to read it or not. I did read it and it ended up being an amazing book. I actually wanted to cry because it was sad. The little girl made me think about how this book is true to people who have no place to go. I would say this book is a realistic tale. The pictures were very big and were square on every picture. The illustration was neat and looked like they
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Oct 04, 2009
Kara
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This book devotes full pages to pictures, which I love. The medium they use looks like oil paint. They are drawn in a 3rd dimension style, which gives them a realistic feel, and the color is what gives the book meaning. The light in the pictures is something that the little girl covets. So around her is usually dark, and it is only in places she can't go such as inside or only in her dreams with the match does she get to be in the light. The textures are very soft focused and glossy but still sh
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Jan 19, 2012
My favorite tale by Hans Christian Anderson has always been The Little Match Girl. The poignancy, the helplessness...it moved me deeply as a child, and still does. Naturally, then, it was a story I wanted in my own library, to share with my daughters, but with so many versions, which to choose? It was blind serendipitous luck that the version I ordered, because the cover drew me in, was adapted and illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. I love it. And that seems like a feeble way to describe my emotional
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Jan 15, 2012
opie
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Meskipun judulnya Gadis Korek Api bukan berarti isinya hanya Gadis Korek Api. Ada sembilan kisah karya H.C. Andersen lainnya yang tak kalah menarik dan tentunya sudah sangat familiar. Yaitu Kisah Cinta Putri Duyung Kecil, Angsa-Angsa Liar, Sang Putri Sejati, Thumbelina, Burung Bulbul, Gadis Korek Api, Ratu Salju: Dongeng dalam Tujuh Kisah, Baju Baru Kaisar, Kisah Rembulan, dan Anak Itik Buruk Rupa.
Menurutku, kisah yang paling menarik adalah Kisah Rembulan. Di kisah ini disebutkan bah More...
Menurutku, kisah yang paling menarik adalah Kisah Rembulan. Di kisah ini disebutkan bah More...
Jul 07, 2011
Althesia
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Setelah sekian tahun, inilah buku dongengku yang pertama. Kami sering pindah rumah, sehingga buku-bukuku tidak pernah selamat, termasuk buku dongengku dimasa kanak-kanak. Pertama-pertama terimakasih untuk penerbit atria yang kembali menyediakan buku-buku ini. Saya membacanya sekarang dan berencana membacakan untuk anak-anak saya kelak (*huaaaa belum berencana*).
Buku setebal 270 halaman ini menggunakan judul salah satu dongeng yang sangat memilukan hati, Gadis korek api. Cerita tentan More...
Buku setebal 270 halaman ini menggunakan judul salah satu dongeng yang sangat memilukan hati, Gadis korek api. Cerita tentan More...
Jun 19, 2011
David
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The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen, illustrated by Rachel Isadora, is one of Andersens's original tales. It's the story of a poor girl forced to sell matchsticks, who freezes to death on New Year's Eve. Afraid to return home until she sells her wares and brings money, she huddles in the shadows of a building, trying to keeps warm. Eventually she lights her matches, seeing one vision after another of things she desires. She is found frozen to death the next day, yet no one understan
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Feb 07, 2010
Ashley
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This book is so sad. Its about a little homeless girl on New Years Eve trying to get a couple cents so she can go back home. She ends up falling asleep between 2 houses. She dreams amazing things with her matches. The best dream of all was her last one, when her deceased grandmother was holding her. The little girl never wanted to let her go b/c she loved her so much. The next morning the little girl had died and froze to death. No one knew the amazing dreams she dreamed right befor she died. :
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Aug 26, 2011
Randie
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The Little Match Girl is a tragic story about a poverty-stricken girl out in the winter cold, to scared to go home because she didn't sell any matches. She is so cold, that she begins to light her matches one by one. Each match bringing a beautiful vision. When morning comes, the girl is found, her body frozen, dead.
As sad as this story might be, it is written beautifully. Isadora's illustrations enhance the descriptive text and depict the light from the matches in an elegant manner.
As sad as this story might be, it is written beautifully. Isadora's illustrations enhance the descriptive text and depict the light from the matches in an elegant manner.
Mar 30, 2009
Ksu
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Sad. Makes me wonder what I would do if I saw a little girl, barefoot and hungry on the street, in the middle of the winter? The reasonable and right answer would be, I would help her, but is it the case? Usually not. Usually people pass by these match-sellers, not even glancing in their direction. This is wrong. But what is more wrong, is that we still have poverty and hunger in this world. Makes me ponder about many different issues at once. Makes me wanna help out...
Mar 31, 2010
Terry
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One of my very favorite children's tales. I first read it as a child of about 11 and it profoundly affected me. I cried buckets! But at the same time, I remember feeling relieved that the little girl was forever warm, forever in the light of that lovely room with a laughing family. At that time of my own life, there was very little to feel good about and somehow, even though the little match girl dies, she is held close in the warmth of love - forever.
Mar 08, 2010
Lisa
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Hans Christian Andersen-The Little Matchstick Girl By: Debbie Lavreys, ISBN 9781605370088, 2008. A poor girl was trying to sell matchsticks to earn money. To keep warm the girl one by one lit the matchsticks, each time she did she saw wonderful images, such as a warm stove, a roasted goose, a sparkling Christmas tree. When an image of her sweet Grandma comes to her she lights the rest of matchsticks and begs for her Grandma to take her with her. She did go to Heaven that night away from her
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Dec 07, 2011
Rebecca
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I've known this Hans Christian Andersen story since I was eight when I auditioned for the theatrical production at a local playhouse. I didn't make the cast, but a friend of mine won the lead. She performed it beautifully and her interpretation has since stayed in my head.
The artwork in this version is nice, though not exceptional.
The artwork in this version is nice, though not exceptional.
Aug 11, 2011
The illustrations add poignancy to Anderson's simple, sad story of the poor little match girl. One of these days I'm going to read all the way through without crying. It always gets me when she sees the falling star and remembers her grandmother saying that meant someone is dying. It makes me want to gather all the unloved, lonely, cold children of the world and comfort them.
Nov 14, 2010
Carol
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Hans Christian Anderson, one of the true masters of the classic fairy tale, has captured the imagination of the child in "The Little Match Girl" in many ways. He combines simple phrases with graphic details and captures a child's sense of smell, sight and feel with the little girl. He uses the match which is a real taboo for most young children to bring to life the Christmas holiday and all its wonder. He brings fantasy to life; however, the death of the child in the end is so very sad
