Hans Christian Anderson was born in Denmark on April 2, 1805. His father was a shoemaker and died while Hans Christian Andersen was still quite young. He went to school for children who were very poor. When he was still quite young, he went to a big city in Demark to find work. He was a singer and a dancer and an actor and a playwright. Oh, and he wrote stories on the side... just for fun.
Those stories are what he is remembered best for today. He considered himself ugly in a world of swans (like an ugly duckling); he often felt like he was on the outside looking in (like a match girl); he felt lonely in his willingness to tell the truth about what he saw (The Emperor's New Clothes).
To honor him today, we read The Emperor's New Clothes. We play a game in our class called "No Answers, Just Questions." Click here to see the questions we came up with.
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