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    What the Old Man Does is Always Right
    What the Old Man Does is Always Right
    What the Old Man Does is Always Right
    Audiobook10 minutes

    What the Old Man Does is Always Right

    Written by H.C. Andersen

    Narrated by Alex Lehman

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    About this audiobook

    A peasant and his wife owned a horse that grazed in a ditch close to their house. But they thought that it would be better for them to sell it or exchange it for something more useful. The woman sent her husband to town to exchange the horse – she trusted him because “what the old man does Is always right”!Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was a Danish author, poet and artist. Celebrated for children’s literature, his most cherished fairy tales include "The Emperor's New Clothes", "The Little Mermaid", "The Nightingale", "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "The Snow Queen", "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Little Match Girl". His books have been translated into every living language, and today there is no child or adult that has not met Andersen's whimsical characters. His fairy tales have been adapted to stage and screen countless times, most notably by Disney with the animated films “The Little Mermaid” in 1989 and “Frozen”, which is loosely based on “The Snow Queen”, in 2013. Thanks to Andersen's contribution to children's literature, his birth date, April 2, is celebrated as International Children's Book Day.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSAGA Egmont
    Release dateJun 24, 2020
    ISBN9788726630787
    What the Old Man Does is Always Right

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