The snow Queen

The snow Queen

Chapter 1 The magic mirror There was once a wicked demon who made a magic mirror. This mirror made everything good look twisted and ugly. Anything bad looked even worse.

“ It's a fine mirror, " snarled the demon's students. “ Let's show it off to the angels. " Flapping their leathery wings, they flew up. . . and up. . . until. . . smash! The mirror slipped from their hands, crashed to the ground and broke into a million tiny pieces.

Some pieces were no bigger than a grain of sand, but they were as powerful as the whole mirror. If a speck flew into someone's eye, everything looked horrible and wrong. But if a splinter struck a person's heart, that heart began to freeze.

Chapter 2 Gerda and Kay Not long after the mirror shattered, a girl named Gerda was living next door to a boy named Kay. In all the world, no two friends were as close.

One winter's day, as snow was falling, Gerda's grandmother told them the story of the Snow Queen. “ She lives in the icy north, but in winter she flies around, disguised as a snowflake. ” “ Beware of her! ” the grandmother warned. “ She's a wicked woman. But don't worry, " she added. “ If your heart is pure, you'll always see the queen for who she is. ”