The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen
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Book Reviews of The Snow Queen
Book Review: The Snow Queen
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an amazing book! The story is wonderful and the illustrations are gorgeous- full of living art and beauty. My first grade class enjoyed hearing it throughout the week. The story is about friendship and never giving up on helping those close to you no matter how hopeless a situation may look.Book Review: Absolutely Beautiful Illustration of one of my favorite books!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the loveliest edition of the Snow Queen I have ever seen. The book is one that should be read to every child and can be interpreted on many level as both a story and a parable. The courage of true love and its conquest of cruelty and indifference is grippingly told.Book Review: The most beautiful book
Summary: 5 Stars
I have an Ukrainian edition of this book.
Without a doubt it's the most beautiful book I've ever held in my hands.
Book Review: The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Anderson
Summary: 4 Stars
October 21, 2008
The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Anderson 458 words
In the Snow Queen the two main characters, Gerda and Kay, are neighbors in the attic of two apartments and best friends. Gerda and Kay's homes were so close to each other that the two children could take two steps out of their windows into the other's just by crossing over the gutter on the rooftop that connected the apartments.
Gerda and Kay would climb out onto the rooftop and sit on their two stools while Grannie would tell them both stories. Grannie once told them, on a cold winter evening, the story of the Snow Queen and how when she looked through your window she would leave frost in the shape of flowers on your window.
Later on that year while Gerda and Kay were sitting on the rooftop Kay exclaimed that something sharp and painful went into his heart. Then another in his eye! And though later Kay believes that they have both gone, he is wrong. The sharp pains Kay feels are both tiny pieces of glass that came from a horrible looking glass made by an Imp named Old Nick, and as Hans Christian Anderson writes- "One of the wickedest." Old Nick made this looking glass so that if you looked through it everyone you saw looked hideous. "That everything good and beautiful that was reflected in it shrank up into nothing." The author writes. So, the one piece that went Into Kay's heart made Kay's heart cold, and it slowly turned into a large lump of ice. And the one piece in his eye made him see everything ugly.
Kay begins to change in his personality. He becomes very intelligent in arithmetic and he no longer cares for roses (which you will read more about in the story). But becomes very interested in ice and snowflakes which Kay calls "perfect in every way as long as they don't melt."
One day while Kay is out sledging in the snow he sees the Snow Queen and she takes him to her palace in Finmark. Gerda, wondering where Kay has gone or whether he is dead, goes out of her town to a river where many towns' people think Kay has drowned. And, there her adventures begin.
Hans Christian Anderson uses Christian perspective in the Snow Queen. In the story Gerda sings this song to Kay:
The valley glows with many roses
And there we meet the sacred child.
It means that we should be as children to be with God, and that in heaven (the valley glows with many roses) we will meet Jesus (the sacred child).
I will not tell you how the story ends but I will tell you that you will be very pleased with all the adventure both Gerda and Kay endure. I very much enjoyed this book and I am quite sure you will too.
Book Review: Would give 5 stars for illustrations, but not for content
Summary: 4 Stars
The illustrations in this book are truly breathtaking, the details are amazing! In fact, I am so impressed, I'm looking for posters and other art that can be displayed to decorate my daughter's room.
However, the text was a surprise... I did not remember such a strong religious context in it. Even though I already purchased the book, I'm hesitant to read it to my daughter, which is why I give the book 4 stars only.