Le livre explore la vie fascinante de Hans Christian Andersen, ami de Charles Dickens, qui a su transcender sa pauvreté grâce à son talent et sa créativité. Il présente une collection de ses contes célèbres, illustrés par des artistes renommés du monde entier, enrichie de nouvelles illustrations. Un hommage à un maître du conte.
This is an illustrated edition of Peter Pan and Wendy.
'In fact, the fairies had turned him into a water-baby. A water-baby? You never heard of a water-baby. Perhaps not. That is the very reason why this story was written.' Poor Tom is an orphan, employed by the underhand Grimes as a chimney sweep. While cleaning a chimney one day, Tom become lost and appears in Ellie's bedroom. She mistakes him for a thief and he flees in fright, down to the edge of a stream where he falls asleep. In his dreamlike world, he becomes a water baby, swimming with the other water babies and discovering an aquatic playground full of strange and wonderful characters.