Colorful Pinyin Illustrations - The Little Match Girl

Author: Jia Yu, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2002-02-01
Features: The Little Match Girl: A little girl from a poor family, on New Year's Eve, braved the snowstorm, bareheaded and barefoot, selling matches on the street. When she couldn't bear the cold anymore, she struck a match. In the flickering light, she saw a huge fireplace. Then, she struck three more matches in succession, seeing a roasted goose, a Christmas tree, and her grandmother in the flames. To keep her grandmother with her, she struck all the remaining matches. In the bright light, the little girl saw her grandmother take her away. The Wild Swans: The king had eleven sons and one daughter, Elisa. Their mother died young, and the king remarried a cruel queen. The queen used magic to turn the eleven princes into eleven wild swans. Elisa endured countless hardships to free her brothers from the magic and, in the end, succeeded in saving them. This book also includes two other stories: The Lucky Bell and Little Idas Flowers.