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• The following version of this story was used to create this lesson plan: Andersen, Hans Christian. Illustrated by Eric Blegvad. “The Little Match Girl.” Stories and Fairytales. Heinemann. London. 1993. Pp. 59-63.

• The story opens on a cold, dark night of New Year’s Eve.

• A “poor little girl” walks the streets “bareheaded and barefoot” (59).

• When the little girl left her house, she had her mother’s slippers on.

• The slippers were so big on her that “the little girl had lost them when she hurried across the street between two carriages that were rushing by” (59).

• She could not find one of the slippers, and a little boy took the other one, telling her “he wanted it for a cradle when he had children himself” (59).

• The little girl’s feet are “red and blue with cold” (59).

• The little girl is carrying a bundle of matches...

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