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The Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (The Red Shoes / The Little Match Girl)

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I must disagree with the other reviewer. Perhaps your students were too old for these videos. My daughter (now 23) loved these little movies so much when she was six to eight years old that she tracked them down on DVD to have as an adult. We had many happy hours watching these together.

Whoever wrote that script must have been watching cartoons at the time. It had to have ripped off ten or more different TV shows and music from them. They danced like in Charlie Brown, three spirits visited like in A Christmas Carol, she is dressed like Little Red Riding Hood, and I don't think I need to go any further. It stinks, and that's the end of it. Total waste to time and money!!!!!!!!!!!!

As I teach fairy tales to middle school students, I thought this version of the Little Match Girl would be useful for the classroom. It is a far cry from the original story. This version has an animal sidekick, talking and dancing trees, and she comes back to life at the end. Then there are the New Jersey accents. My class really and truly thought it was terrible. The music is straight from Charlie Brown's Christmas, the match girl looks like Madeleine, the sidekick dog looks like Arthur the Aardvark. The message about helping the homeless was well taken, but a new story might have worked better than to butcher a classic.