Fairy tale · VoiceSmiths adaptation · 3:51
The Emperor's New Clothes
Two swindlers sell a vain emperor cloth that fools can't see. Nobody dares admit they see nothing, until one little girl speaks up. Andersen, retold.
Narrator
The Emperor
Master Snip, a swindler
Madam Tuck, a swindler
The Old Minister
A Little Girlその他の言語 · 2か国語
このストーリーについて
The Emperor's New Clothes is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, published in 1837 and based on a medieval Spanish tale. Two swindlers sell a vain emperor cloth that is supposedly invisible to fools, and the whole court pretends to see it. This retelling plays it as a gentle comedy with a brave little girl at the end.
お話の教え
People will pretend all sorts of things rather than look foolish. It takes honesty, and sometimes a child's eyes, to say what everyone can see.
対象
Ages 4–10
読み聞かせのコツ
- Play the emperor's pauses big; kids love the breezy line.
- Ask why nobody told the truth, and what your child would have said.
- Keep it light: the joke is on the grown-ups, not on anyone's body.
よくある質問
- What is the moral of The Emperor's New Clothes?
- Vanity and fear of looking foolish can make whole crowds pretend. Honesty takes courage, and the truth is often plain to anyone who isn't afraid to see it.
- Who wrote The Emperor's New Clothes?
- Hans Christian Andersen published it in Denmark in 1837. He based it on a tale in the Spanish book Count Lucanor by Don Juan Manuel, written in 1335.
- What does the emperor has no clothes mean?
- It is an expression for pointing out an obvious truth that everyone else is ignoring or pretending not to notice, usually because they are afraid to speak up.
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