I used these resources when researching the annotations for this fairy tale. Most should be available through your local library, but I have included links to the titles on Amazon.com for further reading.
Altman, Anna E. and Gail de Vos. Tales, Then and Now: More Folktales As Literary Fictions for Young Adults. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 2001.
Amazon.com: Buy the book in paperback.
Ashliman, D. L. A Guide to Folktales in the English Language.New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.
Amazon.com: Buy the book in hardcover.
Frank, Jeffrey and Diana Crone Frank. The Stories of Hans Christian Andersen: A New Translation from the Danish. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2003.
Amazon.com: Buy the book in hardcover.
Internet Movie Database.
URL: http://www.imdb.org.
Accessed on December 28, 2004.
Tatar, Maria M. The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales. New York: W. W. Norton, 2002.
Amazon.com: Buy the book in hardcover.
Yolen, Jane. Touch Magic. Little Rock: August House, 2000.
Amazon.com: Buy the book in paperback.
Zipes, Jack, ed. The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales. Oxford: Oxford University, 2000.
Amazon.com: Buy the book in paperback.
