The Wild Swans
Hans Christian Andersen
The Wild Swans
When an unkind queen turns her eleven brothers into wild swans, brave Elisa knits them magic shirts from stinging nettles without saying a single word until the spell is broken.
- 8 chapters
- Illustrated
- Read aloud
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How the story begins
Chapter 1: Eleven Princes and a Princess
Far away, in the land where the swallows fly in winter, there lived a king with eleven sons and one daughter named Elisa. The princes wore little golden crowns, and Elisa loved to sit on a tiny glass stool, looking at her picture book. The children loved each other dearly.
Chapters in this story
- 1.Eleven Princes and a Princess
- 2.Elisa Goes Home
- 3.The Swans at Sunset
- 4.Across the Sea
- 5.The Fairy's Secret
- 6.The Silent Girl and the King
- 7.Nettles by Moonlight
- 8.The Eleventh Shirt