She has read all the newspapers in the world, and forgotten them again, so clever is she. Frontispiece illustration by Edmund Dulac for The Snow Queen. From Stories from Hans Andersen, published 1938. PacificStock
Many a winter's night she flies through the streets and peeps in at the windows, and then the ice freezes on the panes into wonderful patterns like flowers. Illustration by Edmund Dulac for The Snow Queen. From Stories from Hans Andersen, published 1938. PacificStock
Then an old, old woman came out of the house; she was leaning on a big, hooked stick, and she wore a big sunhat, which was covered with beautiful painted flowers. Illustration by Edmund Dulac for The Snow Queen. From Stories from Hans Andersen, published PacificStock
"It is gold, it is gold!" they cried. Illustration by Edmund Dulac for The Snow Queen. From Stories from Hans Andersen, published 1938. PacificStock
The reindeer did not dare to stop. It ran on till it came to the bush with the red berries. There it put Gerda down, and kissed her on the mouth, while big shining tears trickled down its face. Illustration by Edmund Dulac for The Snow Queen. From Stori PacificStock
Among these trees lived a nightingale, which sang so deliciously that even the poor fisherman, who had planty of other things to do, lay still to listen to it, when he was out at night drawing in his nets. Illustration by Edmund Dulac for The Nightingale PacificStock
" Is it possible?" said the gentleman-in-waiting. " I should never have thought it was like that. How common it looks! Seeing so many grand people must have frightened all its colours away." Illustration by Edmund Dulac for The Nightingale. From Stories PacificStock
Then it again burst into its sweet heavenly song. " That is the most delightful coquetting I have ever seen!" said the ladies and they took some water into their mouths to try and make the same gurgling thinking so to equal the nightingale. Illustration PacificStock
" I have hardly closed my eyes the whole night! Heaven knows what was in the bed. I seemed to be lying upon some hard thing, and my whole body is black and blue this morning. It is terrible!". Illustration by Edmund Dulac for The Real Princess. From St PacificStock
Then the emperor walked along in the procession under the gorgeous canopy, and everybody in the streets and at the windows exclaimed, " How beautiful the Emperor's new clothes are!". Illustration by Edmund Dulac for The Emperor's New Clothes. From Stori PacificStock