Andersen’s Fairy Tales I read:-The Most Incredible Thing
-The Candles
-Sunshine Stories
-Good Luck Can Lie in a Pin
Book Summary: Good Luck Can Lie in a Pin
Author: Hans Christian Andersen
Publishing: Grammercy Books and others
Genre: Fairy Tales
Reading Level: Varies
Summary: This fairy tale was about a man who never had any good luck in his life. He grew up poor and married poor, so poor he stayed. He made umbrellas that often broke and he had to mend them. He had a pear tree in his yard but no pears ever grew on it. One day the wind blew really hard and knocked one of the branches off the pear tree; so just as a joke, he carved the branch into big and little wooden pears and he gave them to the children to play with. One day the umbrella broke again and so this time he mended it with one of the tiny pears he had carved, and this time the umbrella held up perfectly. He sent his umbrellas and pears off to people and they found for themselves too that the pears work best in mending the umbrellas. The old man decided to just start by making them that way and he made a lot of money as so many people bought them. This is where the old man finally found his luck.
My Reaction to the Book: I thought that the book was pretty good. It was a happy surprising story so I enjoyed it. I thought that it could be a little confusing at some points but overall I liked it.
Potential Problems: The only problem that I could see in this story is the fact that the old man is poor but other than that I thought it was good.
Recommendations: I think I would recommend this fairy tale to anyone because was just a happy, good story about good luck.
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