The luminous art of three-time Caldecott Honor recipient Jerry Pinkney transforms the nineteenth-century Danish girl of Andersen s tale into a child plucked straight from America s melting pot shedding new light on the invisibility of the poor among the prosperous-a circumstance as familiar in Andersen s day as it is in our own. [A] beautifully illustrated version of a classic tale. (Booklist starred review)