The Little Match Girl

The Little Match Girl is a children's fairy tale.

The Little Match Girl is a story about a little girl selling matches on the streets in the freezing winter. She has no shoes or hat, but she fears going home because she's sold no matches and her father will surely beat her. She begins to light her matches, and each one brings with it a pleasant wish to warm her soul.

• "The whole point of this story is to bring the searchlight of compassion and charity into the heart. Too often we tend to think ourselves poor. In Andersons day we would all be considered rich compared with most of those about. And fortunate." - Amazon.com user review

• "Every page contains a similar shock, a moment of alienation, and yet viewers will likely feel the rightness of these images for one of Andersen's most disturbing stories. This rendering will be best suited to those who know the tale well and can appreciate this intellectual, abstract presentation." - Publishers Weekly

• Note: The majority of the links in this timeline are to IMDb, which has pop-ups.

• 1921: The Little Match Girl

• 1937: The Little Match Girl

• 1974: The Little Match Girl

• 1983: The Little Match Girl

• 1987: The Little Match Girl

• 2003: Resurrection of the Little Match Girl

• 2004: The Little Match Girl

• 2006: The Little Matchgirl