Allumette: A Fable is a reimagining of The Little Match Girl written by who
Allumette: A Fable Allumette; A Fable, with Due Respect to Hans Christian Andersen, the Grimm Brothers, and the Honorable Ambrose Bierce, by Tomi Ungerer, was originally published in 1974. It is a "reimagining" of "The Little Match Girl" by Hans Christian Andersen. The book's extended title references Andersen, for "The Little Match Girl", as well as fairy tale authors the Brothers Grimm, and satirist Ambrose Bierce. The book was initially published in 1974, and carried in the United States by Parents' Magazine Press and Scholastic, both bargain retailers. It was also briefly reprinted in 1986, but has since gone out of print again.
The Princess and the Tin Box "The Princess and the Tin Box" is a short story by James Thurber in the form of a modern fable. It was first published in the September 29, 1945 edition of "The New Yorker" magazine and republished in 1948 in Thurber's "The Beast in Me and Other Animals: A New Collection of Pieces and Drawings about Human Beings and Less Alarming Creatures". The story is widely used as a text in schools for teaching both writing skills and reading comprehension.