Jiří Trnka Boeken

This collection of over forty of Anderson's most popular stories includes "The Ugly Duckling", "The Red Shoes", and "The Little Match Girl."

No childhood is complete without reading the stories of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen. This book combines tales from both these classic sources, twenty-four from Grimm and Eighteen from Andersen. -- Provided by publisher.

Apart from the classical fairy-tale with illustrations by Jiří Trnka the book offers beautiful fold-up puppets made by this world-famous Czech illustrator and creator of puppet films. Four stage sets are attached which children may use to play out the fairy-tale. This arran­gement offers fun as part of a creative activity and boosts the children’s imagination.

A beautiful collection of puppet shows, showing the importance of puppet theater in Czechoslovakia.