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Dive into Hans Christian Andersen’s world of magic and enchantment, where princes and princesses go on exciting adventures! Starring favourite princes and princesses, these spellbinding tales will delight children and adults alike.

The collection contains the following fairy tales:
- The Wild Swans
- The Flying Trunk
- The Most Incredible Thing
- The Tinder Box
- Clumsy Hans
- The Flea and the Professor
- The Princess and the Pea
- The Swineherd

Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was a Danish author, poet and artist. Celebrated for children’s literature, his most cherished fairy tales include "The Emperor's New Clothes", "The Little Mermaid", "The Nightingale", "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "The Snow Queen", "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Little Match Girl". His books have been translated into every living language, and today there is no child or adult that has not met Andersen's whimsical characters. His fairy tales have been adapted to stage and screen countless times, most notably by Disney with the animated films “The Little Mermaid” in 1989 and “Frozen”, which is loosely based on “The Snow Queen”, in 2013. 

Thanks to Andersen's contribution to children's literature, his birth date, April 2, is celebrated as International Children's Book Day.