3.The first fairy tales that Andersen wrote were published in a cheap little book that he did not take very seriously. This may be the reason why they are so different from his other works. For once, he was not trying to be a great writer. He simply wrote the stories as they came to him. Some were based on folktales he had heard as a child, while others were his own inventions. These stories had the brilliant characters, the action, and the suspense that children love. But what made them special was their informal style, which was completely new at that time. In fact, they were written as though he was telling them at the moment in a voice that was chatty and direct, humorous sometimes and sometimes heartbreaking. By the time Andersen died in 1875, he had indeed become a great writer, loved by children in many countries as well as by famous people and even kings and queens