The luminous art of three-time Caldecott Honor recipient Jerry Pinkney transforms the nineteenth-century Danish girl of Andersen's tale into a child plucked straight from America's melting pot, shedding new light on the invisibility of the poor among the prosperous-a circumstance as familiar in Andersen's day as it is in our own.
Target Age: 5-8
Pub Date: September 23, 2002
0.08" H x 11.56" L x 8.83" W
32 pages
paperback