Listeners will rediscover Hans Christian Andersen's best-known fairy tales, and find new favorites, all brought to life by a full cast. Recognizing the literary merit of Andersen's own simple colloquial language, which Victorian translators and their imitators very often altered to sentimentalize or vulgarize, translator Erik Haugaard has remained faithful to the original text.

A collection of tales includes "Thumbelina," The Brave Tin Soldier," The Princess and the Pea," "The Butterfly," "The Flea and the Professor," "The Flying Trunk," "The Metal Pig," "The Storks," "The Silver Shilling," and "The Nightingale."