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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The little match girl - I LOVED it.  An orphan survives by selling matches on the street corner. On Christmas Eve she’s very cold in a blizzard and sees a family in their home all warm and happy.  They welcome her in and she gets to enjoy this beautiful family scene. Except she didn’t really, that was a hallucination from hypothermia and she’s dead found dead on the street corner in the snow on Xmas morning.[/quote]

Oh, how I also LOVED that story! But you've omitted that beautiful ending where she strikes all the matches and "sees" her loving grandmother reach out for her and take her to heaven. I adored my grandmothers and thought it was so very sad and yet a wonderful ending that she went to be with her grandmother.[/quote]

The Little Match Girl, Johnny Tremain, and To Start a Fire are all examples of classic literature that are worth reading by people of the appropriate ages. They are not really meant to be little children's books. They are all important works in their own right and also because they are alluded to in other works of literature, so it is good for an educated person to be familiar with them.

They are not for little children thought. 
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