The Little Match Girl

The luminous art of three-time Caldecott Honor recipient Jerry Pinkney transforms the nineteenth-century Danish girl of Andersen''s tale into a child plucked straight from America''s melting pot, shedding new light on the invisibility of the poor among the prosperous-a circumstance as familiar in Andersen''s day as it is in our own.

"[A] beautifully illustrated version of a classic tale."(Booklist, starred review)