Hans Christian Andersen taught us who to support when we were wee tots.
Though, just like the untainted child in the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, some of us are beginning to notice.
Hans Christian Andersen used the red shoe as a symbol of wealth and vanity in his morality fairytale The Red Shoes.
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It is often likened to the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale The Little Mermaid, famously turned into a film by the Walt Disney studio in 1989.
If that fairytale is to come through, it seems rather appropriate that it hinges largely on a trip to the birthplace of Hans Christian Andersen - Odense.
The city of Odense was the childhood home of Hans Christian Andersen and it still looks the part, with cobbled streets, gothic spires and eccentric statues dedicated to its famous son.
The fairytale version would have had him keeping the Canaries in the Championship but football has always been more Viv Anderson than Hans Christian Andersen and down they went.
The author won a number of awards for his work, including the Hans Christian Andersen medal for illustration in 1970 and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award from the American Library Association in 1983.
Among his other accolades are the JM Barrie lifetime achievement award, which he received in 2008, the Hans Christian Andersen Award for illustration in 2002 and an honorary degree from the Anglia Ruskin university in Cambridge.
Over a glittering 40-year career, the renowned Danish artist has carved out an international reputation through his ground-breaking garden sculptures, and a visit to his Copenhagen shop is like stepping straight into the pages of a Hans Christian Andersen fairytale.
Tristan (Charlie Cox), is a sweet, diffident young man who, as an infant, was delivered to his father in a basket. (The lad's true identity will come as a surprise only to those unfamiliar with the works of the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen or Walt Disney).
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