Hans Christian Andersen's tales carry more sting than the usual fairy-tale fare: the Emperor's New Clothes is really about a whole court too frightened to say what it sees, told with a child's plain honesty at the end. That mix of the fantastical and the pointed makes these good for reading aloud and then talking about afterwards.
Chapters
A long one: read it a chapter a night.
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