Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales

The Hans Andersen Fairy Tales will be read in schools and homes as long
as there are children who love to read. As a story-teller for children
the author has no rival in power to enlist the imagination and carry it
along natural, healthful lines. The power of his tales to charm and
elevate runs like a living thread through whatever he writes. In the two
books in which they are here presented they have met the tests and held
an undiminishing popularity among the best children's books. They are
recognized as standards, and as juvenile writings come to be more
carefully standardized, their place in permanent literature will grow
wider and more secure. A few children's authors will be ranked among the
Immortals, and Hans Andersen is one of them.