The Snow Queen. Fairy tales for children

The Snow Queen is a story by Hans Christian Andersen that talks about what happens in the hearts of people full of evil and everything that can be achieved thanks to kindness. A short story to read to children. Once upon a time there was a wicked goblin who created a magic mirror incapable of reflec

The Snow Queen is a story by Hans Christian Andersen that talks about what happens in the hearts of people full of evil and everything that can be achieved thanks to kindness. A short story to read to children.

Once upon a time there was a wicked goblin who created a magic mirror incapable of reflecting the goodness of people, returning distorted and terrifying images. The goblin took the mirror to heaven to scandalize the angels, who were reflected as horrifying devilish creatures. Before the terror of the angels, the mirror fell to the earth breaking into millions of small fragments of glass.

Short stories about evil and kindness

Years after this event, two children who were very close friends: Kay and Gerda, listened to the girl's grandmother tell them the story of the Snow Queen, mistress and mistress of the Bees of Snow, able to freeze any unsuspecting who fell under the edge of their stingers.

- Along with the snowflakes, the bees form a large swarm, although she is of course the largest white bee. Sometimes it flits through the city, looks through the windows and they fill with ice forming strange figures.

That same night, little Kay stared through the window at the falling snowflakes. Suddenly, a very large one fell by the window and grew and grew until ... she became the Snow Queen! She was dressed in white, she was very beautiful and dazzling and although she was alive she was made of ice. Kay got so scared that she fell out of the chair she was in and without saying anything she went to bed to sleep.

The next day something got into Kay's eye, it was one of the fragments of the mirror of the evil goblin and something strange happened in the boy because from the same moment he was not the same again. Empezó Kay started to grow grumpy, made fun of everyone and all the pretty things started to look ugly and horrible. One winter day, Kay was playing in the square with her sleigh when a very big sled arrived. The person who was driving it was the Snow Queen.

- Hi, are you cold? Un - A little - Kay answered, that for a while she felt that her heart was about to turn to ice.

Then the queen kissed Kay on the forehead and the boy stopped feeling any cold. He kissed her on the cheeks too, and Kay forgot about Gerda and her grandmother and everyone else. When Gerda saw that Kay was not returning from the square, she began to look for him. Gerda went to look for him and she was there when she fell into a river. He thought he was going to drown when an old woman with a long wooden stick came up and brought her to the shore.

- What were you doing alone in that little boat? Do not you know how dangerous it is to get into the current? Come with me to eat something and tell me what you do here.

Gerda had some fear, because she did not know the old woman, but she was tired and hungry so she accompanied her to her home. The old woman gave her cherries and while she combed her hair with a magical gold comb with which she combed her hair, Gerda was forgetting Kay. Gerda stayed with the old woman keeping him company during the winter, but when in the spring she went out to the garden and saw a rose, she remembered her playmate again.

- I have to go look for him! - Said, and started the search again

Gerda continued her long journey full of adventures and misadventures until after many incidents she arrived at the palace of the Queen of the Snows,

there everything was made of snow. It was very cold and very big but everything was empty, there was no joy, no dancing, no games ... Suddenly Gerda saw a frozen lake and when she approached him she finally saw Kay.

Kay! Kay! It's me, Gerda But the poor boy was frozen and did not move. The girl hugged him and started crying. Her tears fell on Kay's chest and reached her frozen heart, melting it. He kissed her on the cheeks and they blushed. She kissed him on the hands and feet and Kay started to move. The little girl cried again with joy and her tears made the little glass that Kay had in her eye for some time finally come out.

And the two of them were so happy that they could not stop hugging each other, laughing and crying with joy. When they arrived in their city they realized that nothing had changed. Except for a small detail, and is that they had become adults. The roses in the gutter had bloomed and next to them were the two little chairs they used to sit on. So the two adults decided to sit down there, who in the background were still children in their hearts.