Includes index.

Introduction / by Noel Daniel -- The tales. The princess and the pea / illustrated by Tom Seidmann-Freud -- The nightingale / illustrated by Georgi�i Ivanovich Narbut -- The swineherd / illustrated by Einar Nerman -- The old man is always right / illustrated by Hertha List -- The farmyard cock and the weather cock / illustrated by Theo van Hoytema -- The little mermaid / illustrated by Josef Pale�cek, Lotte Reiniger -- The emperor's new clothes / illustrated by Harry Clarke -- The darning needle / illustrated by Maurice Sendak -- Twelve by mail coach / illustrated by Hertha List, Laura Barrett -- The steadfast tin soldier / illustrated by Kay Nielsen -- The snow queen / illustrated by Katharine Beverley, Elizabeth Ellender -- The flea and the professor / illustrated by Laura Barrett -- Thumbelina / illustrated by Gustaf Tenggren -- The sweethearts / illustrated by Vilhelm Pedersen -- Ole shut-eye / illustrated by Takeo Takei -- Five peas in a pod / illustrated by Hertha List -- The ugly duckling / illustrated by Theo van Hoytema -- Little Ida's flowers / illustrated by Hertha List -- The shepherdess and the chimney sweep / illustrated by Kay Nielsen -- The flying trunk / illustrated by Takeo Takei -- The little match girl / illustrated by Arthur Rackham -- The tinderbox / illustrated by Heinrich Strub -- The pen and the inkstand / illustrated by Laura Barrett -- Artists' biographies / by Noel Daniel -- Editor's note -- Afterword / by Professor Johan de Mylius.

Text in English ; translated from the original Danish.