Exclusive Cover Reveal: HIS FAIRYTALE LIFE: A BOOK ABOUT HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN by Jane Yolen and Brooke Boynton-Hughes

You ever talk with someone where they have important news to share, but they make you wait to hear it? I don’t like that. So today, instead of making you wait to see the cover of His Fairytale Life: A Book About Hans Christian Andersen by Jane Yolen and Brooke Boynton-Hughes (out April 1st, 2025 from Neal Porter Books/Holiday House), I’m going to do this:

Pow! And how about the full jacket?

Yep!

And now, a bit more about the book, from the publisher:

The storyteller becomes the story in this illuminating biographical picture book of Hans Christian Andersen, father of the modern fairy tale.

A century and a half have passed since Hans Christan Andersen’s death, but his stories are more alive than ever. Across languages, borders, and disciplines, his timeless creations have left a footprint beyond measuring. Now, come along back to the beginning and meet the human that came before the legend.  

He was a boy
who lived with a mother
who could not read,
but remembered every fairy tale
she’d been told…

Appropriately penned by Jane Yolen, who Newsweek has called “the Hans Christian Andersen of America,” His Fairytale Life is as immersive and transporting as all good fairy tales should be. Each page sings with Brooke Boynton-Hughes’s dazzlingly intricate illustrations. Classics lovers and Disney fanatics alike will cherish this dreamy tome.

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