A review by cait_margaret
Little Mermaid and Other Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen

No rating because I honestly don’t know how I’d even begin to assess these stories like I would a normal book. It’s not news to anyone that fairytales are nuts, but I guess I thought Andersen’s would be slightly more sensible than the Grimm Brothers’ writing—I was wrong! The Tinder Box is the weirdest thing I’ve ever read, The Snow Queen is completely nonsensical, and The Princess and the Pea is only like four paragraphs?? Still, it’s nice to read these in as close to their original form as I can get! Also my edition has gorgeous illustrations from Mina Lima which is the same design firm that did a ton of production/prop design for the Harry Potter films, so that’s neat!