Picture Puffin Books The Little Match Girl, (Paperback)

from AbigailAdams26

The Little Match Girl, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. The Little Match Girl - Andersen's tragic tale of a poor young match-seller who freezes to death one New Year's Eve - is transplanted from Denmark to the United States in Jerry Pinkney's lovely retelling. Set in an American city, sometime in th...

from Eclouse

A poor little girl is told to sell matches and flowers on New Years Eve, but no one will buy them from her. She can't go home because she will be beat so she ends up in a corner and tries to keep warm with the matches, but ends up not surviving. Any age can read this book and feel something towar...

from pinkney332

Jerry Pinkney really does a great job with the pictures in this book. The faces that he has painted on the people in town really portray their emotions. When the little girl keeps lighting the matches, she was supposed to sell, to keep warm the imaginary things that she sees like the stove, feast...

from Whisper1

A sad tale of a little girl living in poverty with an abusive father, at the hands of this highly talented illustrator, the story comes to life. On New Years eve when all is bleak, frozen and bitter cold, a lonely, the tiny, hungry girl walks the busy streets as horses clamor, and cars race, all ...

from pinkney332

Jerry Pinkney really does a great job with the pictures in this book. The faces that he has painted on the people in town really portray their emotions. When the little girl keeps lighting the matches, she was supposed to sell, to keep warm the imaginary things that she sees like the stove, feast...