Opie, Iona; Opie, Peter (1974), The Classic Fairy Tales, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-211559-6 In 2022, Big Finish Productions released an adaptation of "The Shadow", called "The Shadow Master" in the eighth release of their War Master audiobook series, "The War Master: Escape from Reality", starring Derek Jacobi. [7] See also [ edit ] Seriality and Texts for Young People: The Compulsion to Repeat edited by M. Reimer, N. Ali, D. England, M. Dennis Unrau, Melanie Dennis Unrau

The tale is classified in the Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index as ATU 704, "The Princess and the Pea". [2] Plot [ edit ]Six Crimson Cranes, a novel by Elizabeth Lim that reimagines the story in a fantasy setting inspired by Ancient Japan from the perspective of the Emperor's Seventh Child and only daughter. Recorded using "special Greek symbols". Garfield, Patricia (21 June 2004). "The Dreams of Hans Christian Andersen" (PDF). p.29. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 March 2012 . Retrieved 19 August 2020.

De Wilde Zwanen (The Wild Swans), a comical audio play adaptation accompanied by a book, by Belgian production house Het Geluidshuis. Bredsdorff, Elias (1975). Hans Christian Andersen: the story of his life and work 1805–75. Phaidon. ISBN 0-7148-1636-1 . Retrieved 4 April 2012. While a 1905 article in the American Journal of Education recommended the story for children aged 8–10, [4] "The Princess and the Pea" was not uniformly well received by critics. Toksvig wrote in 1934, "[the story] seems to the reviewer not only indelicate but indefensible, in so far as the child might absorb the false idea that great ladies must always be so terribly thin-skinned." [5] Heiner, Heidi Anne (2021), "History of The Princess and the Pea", SurLaLune Fairy Tales , retrieved 9 July 2023In 1994 Frederik Magle, Thomas Eje, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen and others released the album The Song Is a Fairytale with songs based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairytales. "The Shadow" is one of the songs. [4]

Andersen's story in turn appears to have influenced Oscar Wilde's " The Fisherman and His Soul". [1] Adaptations [ edit ]A toy soldier with a leg missing falls out a window, has adventures, admires a paper ballerina from afar, and is finally thrown into a furnace with the ballerina. The Little Matchgirl (2006), an animated short film by the Walt Disney Animation Studios directed by Roger Allers and produced by Don Hahn Hans Christian Andersen often referred to in Scandinavia as H. C. Andersen, (2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author. Between 1845 and 1864, H. C. Andersen lived at Nyhavn 67, Copenhagen, where a memorial plaque is placed on a building. [24] Nonetheless, the popular tale is commonly referenced in popular culture. In 1909, the Danish government commissioned a bronze statue of the Little Mermaid be built in the capital city of Copenhagen. It attracts thousands of visitors a year, and has become an unofficial symbol of the Danish capital in the time since. 1838 The Steadfast Tin Soldier