The strength of a little girl's love enables her to overcome many obstacles and free a boy from the Snow Queen's spell.

This classic story by Hans Christian Andersen follows two young children, Kai and Gerda, who are best friends and neighbors. When a troll's mirror that reflects the ugliness in all things shatters, Kai gets flecks of the glass in his eyes and heart, which hardens him. He leaves his friend Gerda and his family, and goes off with the Snow Queen, whose two kisses make Kai forget about Gerda and numbs him to the cold. Gerda searches for Kai, but when...

A prince disguises himself as a swineherd and learns the true character of the princess he desires.

An anthology of doll stories, poems, and excerpts from novels, drawn from a variety of sources.