The Little Match Girl
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ISBN: 0698114175 / Publisher: Puffin Books, September 2001
The wares of the poor little match girl illuminate her cold world, bringing some beauty to her brief, tragic life.
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The luminous art of three-time Caldecott Honor recipient Jerry Pinkney transforms the nineteenth-century Danish girl of Andersen's tale into a child plucked straight from America's melting pot, shedding new light on the invisibility of the poor among the prosperous-a circumstance as familiar in Andersen's day as it is in our own."[A] beautifully illustrated version of a classic tale."(Booklist, starred review)
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