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The Emperor's new clothes

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Only a child has the courage to speak the truth about the Emporer's lack of clothes, in this retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's traditional fairy-tale.

The illustrator sets the tale in a small kingdom around the year 1913, featuring fashions of the period and an early motor car.

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Walker Books Ltd
0744572959 / 9780744572957
Paperback / softback
03/04/2000
United Kingdom
English
[25]p. : ill. (chiefly col.)
27 cm
general /pre-school Learn More
Reprint. Originally published: 1997.
Naomi Lewis is a former winner of the Eleanor Farjeon Award for services to children's literature. Illustrator, Angela Barrett, won the 1989 Smarties Book Prize (6-8 category) for "Can it be True?" and the 1991 WH SMith Illustration Award for "The Hidden House." She has been shortlisted three times for the Kurt Maschler Award and once for the Kate Greenaway Medal for "Beware Beware".
Naomi Lewis is a former winner of the Eleanor Farjeon Award for services to children's literature. Illustrator, Angela Barrett, won the 1989 Smarties Book Prize (6-8 category) for "Can it be True?" and the 1991 WH SMith Illustration Award for "The Hidden House." She has been shortlisted three times for the Kurt Maschler Award and once for the Kate Greenaway Medal for "Beware Beware". YBC Picture books, YFJ Traditional stories (Children's / Teenage)