The Red Shoes

Name: The Red Shoes
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Hans Christian Andersen
ISBN: 9781666600803

Author: Hans Christian Andersen

Narrator: Emma Fenney

Unabridged: 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 10/03/2017

Categories: Children's Fiction, Classic Children's Stories, Children's Short Stories, Fairy Tales

Synopsis

In The Red Shoes, a peasant girl named Karen is adopted by a rich old lady and grows up vain and spoiled. She is so enamored of a new pair of red shoes that she wears them to church in spite of a warning to only wear black shoes there. She soon learns that ignoring that warning was a bad idea: a mysterious old soldier at the church charms the red shoes with a tap of his hand. This cautionary tale has been adapted for various media including film.

About Hans Christian Andersen

Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) originally trained as a singer and actor, but he gained fame with his fairy tales, which were not meant merely for children but for adults as well. Andersen frequently used a colloquial style that disguises the sophisticated moral teachings of his tales. Many of Andersen's fairy tales depict characters who gain happiness in life after suffering and enduring conflicts. "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Little Mermaid" are Andersen's most intimate works. A playwright and novelist as well as the author of children's tales, Andersen publications include the novels The Improvisatore and Only a Fiddler, as well as his personal memoirs, The Fairy Tale of My Life.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Abigail on August 26, 2019

The Red Shoes, retold by Gloria Fowler, illustrated by Sun Young Yoo. Hans Christian Andersen's horrifying fairy-tale, The Red Shoes, in which a young girl must pay a terrible price for her "vanity," is given a distinctly modern twist in Gloria Fowler's reinterpretation. No longer an ungrateful o......more

Goodreads review by Rahmadiyanti on March 30, 2021

Retelling dari The Red Shoes oleh HC Andersen. Ceritanya lebih simpel, nggak terlalu gelap, dan menonjolkan pesan kreativitas dari sosok tokoh utama, Karen. Meskipun memang agak jauh berbeda dari kisah aslinya. Ilustrasinya yang keren banget. Hitam putih dengan teknik goresan pensil (saya nggak begi......more

Goodreads review by Romanaus on March 13, 2014

Karen, the daughter of poor shoemaker dreamt about growing-up and making beautiful dancing shoes and clothes to go with them. Because her mother was too poor to buy shoes for her birthday, she had been secretly making a pair of red shoes for Karen out of some leftover scraps. Unfortunately she fell......more

Goodreads review by Karen on December 26, 2013

My five-year-old son picked this book out from the library this week. I might have helped him -- my first name is Karen, and I was so enthralled with and terrified of Andersen's version as a child that I was twenty before I owned a pair of red shoes. The pen and ink illustrations are delightful, but......more

Goodreads review by Susie on June 27, 2011

i agree with this review that stated "The illustrations were beautiful, but the story read like a parable for indie designers." As an indie designer, I didn't see that as a drawback — I liked how the newly interpreted text taught the lesson that cleverness and honing of your (potentially inherited)......more