The Emperor's New Clothes: The Graphic Novel

By Hans C. Andersen and Jeffrey Stewart Timmins

In a faraway kingdom, there lives an Emperor who prizes fancy clothes above all else. He buys suit after suit made of the most expensive materials instead of tending to his threadbare kingdom. Then, one day, two traveling merchants offer to make the Emperor a special suit that has magical powers. The merchants, however, are not who they claim to be, and the suit has one major flaw no one can see it!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Capstone Young Readers
• Release date: May 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9781666304244

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Reviews for The Emperor's New Clothes

[scott_nilson-1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This book is a great take on Hans Christian Andersen's story: "The Emperor's New Clothes".Fairy tales tend to be a good read for young children. This book seems suitable for children ages 6-9.I particularly like the comic book format of reading which could be useful in drawing in reluctant or uninterested readers.The text per page is short and the pictures are fun to look at. The word complexity is what puts this book out of range for pre-school/kindergarten children. Having said that, there is a glossary of unfamiliar terms located at the end of the story.One additional feature I found valuable was the discussion questions and writing prompts that were given at the end of the book.There are many lessons to be had from this classic story.Talking points such as honesty, deceit, vanity, humility, independent thought, and conformity, could all be explored using this book.

[irisdovie · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I enjoyed this retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale. A good way to portray the idea of vanity to children. I might put this on a school reading list for second or third-graders.

[shalynadams · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

In this book it talks about a emperor who wants to have everything his was. He loves clothes and wants them to be bright and shinny. Then one day instead of paying attention he was about to get robbed he let some strangers make him a brilliant piece of clothing. After he ordered all the jewles they ended up stealing all of them. They told the emperor his suit was invisible but he looked wonderful. When really he didn't have anything on but his undergarment. He learned a lesson that day to be so involved in hiself and become a better ruller.This was a cute comic as well. I didn't like it as well as the other but it was still good. It teaches a good morral also. It will show children not to just think about theirselves but to think about what they are doing empacts everyone else too.This book would be a good book for children to read. It's funny and teaches them good morrals. In the classroom we would read it aloud as a group and then discuss it as a whole classroom.