Famous People of the Bible: Moses Leads His People (Board Book)

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The Nightingale, illustrated by Mary J. Newill. Originally published by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press in 1895, and then reprinted in this edition by R.H. Russell in 1898, this nineteenth-century retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's The Nightingale features the translation of H.W. Dulcken,...

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The Nightingale, illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. Like The Little Mermaid, or The Ugly Duckling (with which it was originally published in 1843), The Nightingale is one of Hans Christian Andersen's original fairy-tales, relating the story of the Emperor of China, who learns to value natural b...

from MrsLee

A beautifully illustrated and narrated story. This was given to me when I was 9 and I remember losing myself in the pictures of this book.

from librisissimo

A good translation beautifully illustrated. The moral holds up very well, and Andersen's story is gently witty.

from Mparis

This wonderful old Hans Christian Anderson tale, tells of an Emperor in China who tries to keep a lovely Nightingale caged up to sing to him. Soon, the Nightingale is replaced by a jeweled mechanical one who never tires of singing. The Nightingale never forgets the tears in the Emperor's eyes as ...