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Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen

retold by Ken Setterington

illustrated by Nelly Hofer & Ernst Hofer

Publisher
Tundra
Initial publish date
Sep 2000
Category
General, Adaptations, Friendship
Recommended Age
8 to 12
Recommended Grade
3 to 7
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780887764974
    Publish Date
    Sep 2000
    List Price
    $21.99

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Description

Gerda and Kay are the best of friends. They live across an alley from each other and happily chat, play, and tend their lovely rose garden. The children are happy until tragedy strikes Kay. His eye and heart are pierced with fragments of a mirror, and the loving boy Gerda knew vanishes. The Snow Queen has put him under her spell and taken him to her palace of snow and ice. It is up to Gerda to find him and bring him home to the love that awaits him.

In this timeless storybook, Ken Setterington has captured the haunting beauty of the classic tale of love’s ability to conquer the coldest, most damaged heart. The book is illustrated with the delicate traditional cut paper art of scherenschnitt, which Hans Christian Andersen himself practiced.

About the authors

KEN SETTERINGTON is the author of Mom and Mum are Getting Married and Branded by the Pink Triangle, winner of the Canadian Jewish Book Award for Holocaust Literature and a Stonewall Honor from the American Library Association. He is the former Children and Youth Advocate for the Toronto Public Library and received the Meritorious Service Medal from the Governor General of Canada in 2017 for his work bringing children and literature together. He lives with his partner in Toronto.

Ken Setterington's profile page

Nelly Hofer's profile page

Ernst Hofer's profile page

Awards

  • Short-listed, Governor General's Literary Awards - Children's Literature - Illustration

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