Discover the life of Hans Christian Andersen - the father of fairy tales. When he was a little boy, he treated storybooks as jewels to be treasured and wanted to perform on stage, but was always cast as the troll. Luckily, through theather, he found a love for writing and started writing writing abouth both the ordinary and fantaastic, in stories like ''The Ugly Duckling'', ''The little Mermaid'' and ''The Princess and the Pea''.