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After listening to a Myth and Legends' and Disney Origins' podcasts, both tackling this story, I had to read it, even though I already knew everything about it from the two podcasts.
It's weird how "Frozen" is labeled is being adapted or whatever from this story, because other than Snow being an important part of the story, THEY HAVE NOTHING IN COMMON! Disney's Frozen and Hanz's Snow Queen are very different stories.
Now onto this story, it's my first full-length story I've read by the guy (surpr ...more
It's weird how "Frozen" is labeled is being adapted or whatever from this story, because other than Snow being an important part of the story, THEY HAVE NOTHING IN COMMON! Disney's Frozen and Hanz's Snow Queen are very different stories.
Now onto this story, it's my first full-length story I've read by the guy (surpr ...more
An excellent fairy tale. Fairy tales should first scare you and then resolve happily. This fits that bill. It must be entertaining to both the adult reading the tale and the child. I admit it; I was tense, annoyed and worried ....and then happy. If the parent is bored, it is not a good fairy tale. The child will feel your own emotional response.
Hans Christian Andersen knew how to write stories for both adults and kids. I chuckled. I marveled at the author's ability to create an exciting story, e ...more
Hans Christian Andersen knew how to write stories for both adults and kids. I chuckled. I marveled at the author's ability to create an exciting story, e ...more
is *again* somehow edited version just like
. :( The illustrations are very beautiful and colourful. However I would recommend
as it's, as far I can tell, more faithful to the original tale. 
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From BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Drama:
Faced with an upstart stepdaughter and lied to by her King about the real object of his affection, his unnaturally perfect daughter, the Queen is forced into decisive and deadly action
Faced with an upstart stepdaughter and lied to by her King about the real object of his affection, his unnaturally perfect daughter, the Queen is forced into decisive and deadly action
A fantastic read. Disney couldn't stomach a Christian message so they even had to change the title to frozen although it was based on Snow Queen. How progressively they watered down the fairy tail story over the years! The result is just a feel good, very simple narrative. Children are left with no sense of power of evil, a distorted and broken nature of our heart, the problem of evil, the power of Satan, the redeemer who actually went through hell to redeem us, just to name a few. We are all Ka
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The Snow Queen is not retelling /adoption of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, this is just a translation. :)
It doesn't have such an amazing illustrations as The Snow Queen. Hans Christian Andersen but at least the text is not butchered, and that's more important. ...more
It doesn't have such an amazing illustrations as The Snow Queen. Hans Christian Andersen but at least the text is not butchered, and that's more important. ...more
Dec 16, 2014
Nancy
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it was amazing
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This was a gift for audible members. It's series of short stories by Hans Christian Anderson. They were stories I had never heard before, and they were enjoyable. The movie Frozen, was supposed to have been based on some of these stories. I haven't seen the movie, so I can't tell. The narrator is very good.
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A charming fairy tale.
