The Emperor's New Clothes

This Penguin 60's edition is a selection of short stories taken from Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales collection.The Emperors New Clothes is the known story, some others somewhat familiar, some quite original.Andersen has a talent for bringing the inanimate to life - in this selection a brass pig, a matchstick, a bottle.Being 9/10th of the way through [b:The Book of Thousand Nights and One Night 12176177 The Book of Thousand Nights and One Night (4 volume set) Anonymous https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1384159080s/12176177.jpg 45998791], these stories somehow don't hold the same level of interest, but that is always going to be a hard act to follow.For me these sit in the three to four star range, but probably 3 in this case.