Lovingly illustrated adaptation of Andersen's classic fairy tale. Bilingual edition (English and Swedish), accompanied by online audiobooks and videos in English (British as well as American) and Swedish 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.
Tvåspråkig barnbok (engelska – svenska), med ljudbok och video online
‘De vilda svanarna’ av Hans Christian Andersen är inte utan orsak en av värdelns mest lästa sagor. I tidlös form har den allt det som tema som mänskligt drama är gjort av: Rädsla, tapperhet, kärlek, förräderi, separation och återfinnande.
Denna utgåva är en kärleksfullt illustrerad bildbok som berättar Andersens saga i en inkännande och barnvänlig form. Boken har översatts till ett flertal språk och finns som tvåspråkig utgåva i alla tänkbara kombinationer.
♫ Lyssna på historien läst av modersmål! I boken hittar du en länk som ger dig fri tillgång till ljudböcker och videor på båda språken.
► Med färgläggningssidor! Via en länk i boken kan bilderna från berättelsen laddas ner för färgläggning.
Про автора
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).