Lovingly illustrated adaptation of Andersen's classic fairy tale. Bilingual edition (English and Japanese), accompanied by online audiobooks and videos in English (British as well as American) and Japanese and printable coloring pages.), accompanied by audiobooks and videos in English (British as well as American) and"The Wild Swans" by Hans Christian Andersen is, with good reason, one of the world's most popular fairy tales. In its timeless form it addresses the issues out of which human dramas are made: fear, bravery, love, betrayal, separation and reunion.The present edition is a lovingly illustrated picture book recounting Andersen's fairy tale in a sensitive and child-friendly form. Listen to the story read by native speakers! Within the book you'll find a link that gives you free access to audiobooks and videos in both languages. For Students of Japanese: We use a set of simple Kanji in the Japanese text of the book, beside Hiragana and Katakana. For beginners these Kanji are transcribed with Hiragana characters. In the appendix you will find the entire text of the book using the complete Kanji character set, as well as a latin transcription (Romaji) and a table of Hiragana and Katakana. With printable coloring pages! A download link in the book gives you free access to the pictures from the story to color in. ( ), "" MP3

Hans Christian Andersen was born in the Danish city of Odense in 1805, and died in 1875 in Copenhagen. He gained world fame with his literary fairy-tales such as "The Little Mermaid", "The Emperor's New Clothes" and "The Ugly Duckling". The tale at hand, "The Wild Swans", was first published in 1838. It has been translated into more than one hundred languages and adapted for a wide range of media including theater, film and musical.Ulrich Renz was born in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1960. After studying French literature in Paris he graduated from medical school in Lübeck and worked as head of a scientific publishing company. He is now a writer of non-fiction books as well as children's fiction books.Marc Robitzky, born in 1973, studied at the Technical School of Art in Hamburg and the Academy of Visual Arts in Frankfurt. He works as a freelance illustrator and communication designer in Aschaffenburg (Germany).