Lovingly illustrated adaptation of Andersen's classic fairy tale. Bilingual edition (English and French), accompanied by online audiobooks and videos in English (British as well as American) and French and printable coloring pages.
‘The Wild Swans’ by Hans Christian Andersen is, with good reason, one of the world's most popular fairy tales. In its timeless form it addresses the issues out of which human dramas are made: fear, bravery, love, betrayal, separation and reunion.
The present edition is a lovingly illustrated picture book recounting Andersen’s fairy tale in a sensitive and child-friendly form.
♫ Listen to the story read by native speakers! Within the book you'll find a link that gives you free access to audiobooks and videos in both languages.
► With printable coloring pages! A download link in the book gives you free access to the pictures from the story to color in.
Livre bilingue pour enfants (anglais – français), avec livre audio et vidéo en ligne
« Les cygnes sauvages », de Hans Christian Andersen, n'est pas pour rien un des contes de fées les plus populaires du monde entier. Dans un style intemporel, il aborde les thématiques du drame humain : peur, courage, amour, trahison, séparation et retrouvailles.
Cette édition est un album merveilleusement illustré qui présente le conte d'Andersen sous une forme sensible et adaptée aux enfants. Traduite dans une multitude de langues, elle est disponible en édition bilingue dans toute les combinaisons possibles de ces langues.
♫ Écoutez l'histoire racontée par des lecteurs dans leur langue maternelle ! Dans le livre, vous trouverez un lien qui vous donnera gratuitement accès à des livres audio et à des vidéos dans les deux langues.
► Avec modèles de coloriage à imprimer ! Via un lien dans le livre, les illustrations de l'histoire peuvent être téléchargées pour être imprimées et coloriées.
Sobre o autor
Hans Christian Andersen was born in the Danish city of Odense in 1805, and died in 1875 in Copenhagen. He gained world fame with his literary fairy-tales such as ‘The Little Mermaid’, ‘The Emperor's New Clothes’ and ‘The Ugly Duckling’. The tale at hand, ‘The Wild Swans’, was first published in 1838. It has been translated into more than one hundred languages and adapted for a wide range of media including theater, film and musical.
Ulrich Renz was born in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1960. After studying French literature in Paris he graduated from medical school in Lübeck and worked as head of a scientific publishing company. He is now a writer of non-fiction books as well as children's fiction books.
Marc Robitzky, born in 1973, studied at the Technical School of Art in Hamburg and the Academy of Visual Arts in Frankfurt. He works as a freelance illustrator and communication designer in Aschaffenburg (Germany).