My favourite writer is Hans Christian Andersen.
I like to read. Most of all, I like to read fairy tales. My favourite storytelling writer is Hans Christian Andersen. His stories are familiar to me from early childhood. They are not like the others. In ordinary fairy tales, good always wins over evil and everything ends well. And Andersen's fairy tales are more like real life: there are laughter and tears, joy and grief – everything is like in real life. Andersen was a great storyteller and understood that even the most magical fairy tale should reflect life.
Hans Christian Andersen was born on April 2, 1805 in the small town of Odense in Denmark. His father was a poor shoemaker, and the storyteller's childhood was spent in a modest house. There he could see everything that later came to life in his fairy tales: a soldier made from an old tin spoon, a darning needle, and a vegetable garden in a box, familiar to us from the fairy tale "The Snow Queen".
The shoemaker's family lived hard, so Hans Christian had to go to work at the age of 12 in a cloth factory. And he could only study in the evenings at a free school for the poor. But he studied with passion, great desire, all his free time reading and listening. He read books and listened to fairy tales – he loved them more than anything else in the world.
He decided to become a writer and write fairy tales. It wasn't easy, but Hans Andersen was as tough and tenacious as his tin soldier. And in fairy tales, he told everyone the truth, just like the boy in the story of the naked king.
Andersen became the first good adviser to all children on earth. And that means all people, because all adults were once children. Andersen's fairy tales are not only written for children. They contain many wise thoughts. "The Snow Queen" teaches true friendship, "Thumbelina" - mutual assistance, "The new dress of the king" - truthfulness, "Flint" - wit, and the heroine of my favourite fairy tale "The Little Mermaid" for the sake of her beloved sacrifices her own life!
I really like Andersen's fairy tales, and I want as many children and adults as possible to read and reread his wonderful, magical, slightly sad and such unusual works.
