Little Claus and Big Claus

Written by Hans Christian Andersen

Narrated by Sir Michael Caine

"Little Claus and Big Claus", one of Hans Christian Andersen's most beloved fairy tales, is narrated by Sir Michael Caine, CBE for the GivingTales project.

Big Claus is rich, Little Claus is poor, they both live in the same village. Little Claus makes the mistake of proclaiming to the village people all the horses he works are his. Big Claus gets angry as four of the five horses are his and in his indignation, kills Little Claus' only horse as punishment. Dismayed, Little Claus heads to market to sell the horse hide, but instead cons a farmer out of a bag of money in an little affair involving the farmer's wife, the deacon, a wizard and the devil...

"Little Claus and Big Claus" was released on May 8th, 1835. The original title in Danish: "Lille Claus og Store Claus".

• Language: English
• Publisher: GivingTales
• Release date: May 15, 2018
• ISBN: 9781987101126

Hans Christian Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was a Danish writer and author of many notable books including The Snow Queen. He specialized in writing fairytales that were inspired by tales he had heard as a child. As his writing evolved his fairytales became more bold and out of the box. Andersen's stories have been translated into more than 125 languages and have inspired many plays, films and ballets.