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From: Marvels & Tales
Date: 20060101
Author:Immel, Andrea
A green cloth volume of Andersen's fairy tales in the Grosset & Dunlap Illustrated Junior Library is one of the books I remember most vividly from childhood. And when my first grade teacher discovered I could read aloud "Fhe Ugly Duckling" without any coaching, she exempted me from regular reading instruction. But Andersen probably would not have appeared on a list of my favorite authors. Reading him was a visceral but not especially pleasant experience, because the stories that aroused a ghoulish confusion of terror and pity were the most mesmerizing. Fhe response was triggered not so ...
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