The Little Match Girl

Synopsis

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).