hans05_rap Rap Point 1 - Hans Christian Anderson's Early life

["Rasaiah, Sally" <Sally.Rasaiah@det.nsw.edu.au>]

 

 

Dear fellow book wrappers,

 

 

We have found out Hans Christian Anderson was born in 1805 he was the son of a shoemaker and his mother could hardly read his father died when he was 11 so he left school. He was very ugly so he got bullied a lot.

He went to Copenhagen at the age of 14 at the age of 17 he was put in a school to learn with 12 year olds and the headmaster and children mocked and bullied him just as the animals in one of his most favourite stories the ugly duckling. In 1828 he went to the University of Copenhagen where he started writing. Anderson wrote several plays and novels but it was his tales for children that bought him world wide praise they included Thumbelina, the little mermaid, the tin soldier, the princess and the pea, the snow queen, and the emperor's new clothes. He died in 1875 aged 70.

 

 

From 5K in St Paul's Grammar School