The Steadfast Tin Soldier
By: by Hans Christian Andersen ; translated from the Danish by Eva Le Gallienne ; pictures by Maurice Sendak
Contributors: Sendak, Maurice
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Published: 1953
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780437230508
Notes: This is a favorite among Hans Andersen’s stories. Children enjoy it first for its story of the adventures of a tin soldier, and his love for the little dancer. As they grow older the meaning of the story is deeper. Finally adults see in it things children do not.
Marcia Brown has illustrated the story with much feeling. The lovely blueviolet of the background gives it an other-world, spiritual quality, yet it has also strength and vitality.