updating an old text for the 21st century: the little match girl//

this picture book takes the skeleton of the hans christian andersen classic and re-imagines it in modern times. the little match girl in my tale is a very disturbed and traumatised young girl, who has lost her family in an unnamed tragedy. she returns to the house and proceeds to set fire to it in an attempt to erase it from the landscape. in the flames she sees visions of her former life and longs to be back once more with her parents...