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.---from the publisher
32 pages 978-0142301883 Ages 5-8
Keywords: fairy tale, homelessness and poverty, girls and women, death and dying, 5 year old, 6 year old, 7 year old, 8 year old, African American illustrator, Christmas, classic
