Two new middle grade novels insist Hans Christian Andersen got it all wrong. From “The Little Match Girl Strikes Back.”Credit...Lauren Child Supported by By Jennifer Howard One might think Hans ...

Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Ricki Klages, Illustrator, Linnea Gentry, Author Harbinger House $9.95 (45p) ISBN 978-0-943173-13-9 In a stirring retelling complemented by vivid watercolors, the ...

At New York City Ballet, Alexei Ratmansky exposes the current moment with a political satire based on “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” By Gia Kourlas “The Naked King,” based on “The Emperor’s New Clothes, ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. ‘Five Weeks in the Country’ is a fictionalized account of the summer that Andersen overstayed his welcome at Dickens' country home ...

British writer Michael Rosen has won the 2026 Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing, while Chinese illustrator Cai Gao has won the award for Illustration.

It goes without saying that the history of animation is riddled with groundbreaking developments and touchstone moments that Disney continues to bring to the genre. The multiplane camera brought the ...

The former children’s laureate missed the announcement of the award in Bologna due to post-Brexit passport rule changes ...

People lament that children don’t read these days. But according to Austrian author Heinz Janisch, the more pressing question ...

Also in today’s Classical Live, specially recorded performances from lutenist Thomas Dunford from LSO St. Luke’s, and as ...

2 Katori Hall's THE MOUNTAINTOP to be Presented at The Warehouse Theatre 3 THE SQUIRRELS Dark Comedy to be Presented at Trustus Theatre 4 SHOWSTOPPERS: ICONIC BROADWAY SONGS THROUGHOUT THE AGES to ...

A handful of fall books invite youngsters to gather 'round. Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, trans. by Naomi Lewis, illus. by Joel Stewart, reads like an ode to the writer himself. Lewis gives ...