Children's Treasury Stories from Andersen - with full colour illustrations

Many are familiar with "The Little Mermaid" or "The Toy Soldier," but to read this book is to find a whole new world of this great author. I got the book for my grandchildren. Started reading it and have not stopped yet. Anderson's stories focus on children,adults, plants and animals, and life and death. In reality they are about the beauty of life, love, and charity. Each story contains a moral, and from a beginning of something negative by stories end are transformed into something positive. The first story I read was about a little boy who had died. An Angel took him upon a journey. The journey was part of his life, but a view of the world he had not known before. In the end the boy was in Heaven, before God, and received his Angelic wings to soar with the Angels and other children. The story seems sad, but in reality it is not. Other stories are about a mothers love for a lost child, a birds trials, and that of flowers. Yes, they are allegorical yet they are so much more. I would recommend this book for young and old alike.