The Steadfast Tin Soldier

(Hardback)

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Ages 6 to 9

A gorgeous, graphically compelling retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's classic story of love and fate by award-winning printmaker JooHee Yoon

In this contemporary retelling of Andersen's tale, Yoon renders the lifecycle of the one-leggedtin soldier, from themoment of its manufacture to his untimely end. Foregrounding the accidental, Yoon's version captures life as theinterplay of personality and fate, fulfillment and loss, reminding us how strongly we can love another whenable to identify with them.

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"Colored in bold reds, blacks, and grays, Yoon's angular mixed-media prints highlight the soldier's stoicism and the perils he faces." -- STARRED REVIEW, Publishers Weekly

Author Bio

JooHee Yoon is an illustrator and printmaker committed to the art of bookmaking. She enjoys combining illustration with design whenever possible and using both traditional and industrial printing techniques for her projects. Rather than a single approach, she tries to match the tone of each project. She strives to create picture books that work on many levels and can be enjoyed by people of all ages. Hans Christian Andersen was a product of two towns, two social environments, two worlds and two ages. Both as a man and as a writer he thus continually developed and changed, but was also in constant dialogue with himself and even at times at war with himself. Thus his social rise provides the direct and indirect motif in many of his tales, novels and plays, both as a productive source in his search for a new and more comprehensive identity and as a source of perpetual and unresolved traumas.