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Should we miss an opportunity to travel in the child’s world? One of the best ways to do that is read the children’s books. We have numerous of children’s books have the similar topic, but it’s different in others from published years. “The Little Match Girl” by Hans Christian Andersen and “Ladder to The Moon” by Maya Soetoro-N G, illustrated by YuYi Morales. Both of these books were talking about family love, hopefully in the life, sympathetically, and sharing each other. It has the similar message, but it’s different in many ways.
The Little Match Girl” by Hans Christian Andersen published in December, 1845. This book was about in New York’s winter, there was a little girl used to sell the matchsticks to make money for her father. It was the day before the New Year; everyone around her has enough food, warm family to celebrate the season. No one was paying attention to this little girl. She was wearing torn and ragged clothes, she also no shoe on her feet. The weather was so cold, she could not go home because she knew her father would angry, and scold tier for coming back without sell any match. Then, she sat in the corner on the street. She wanted to light up a match to help her get warmer, but she scary that her father will punish her by waste the matchstick. The weather keeps colder; she decided to light up one matchstick. Each matchstick is the dream of this girl. She saw the warm large iron stove, foods, snow white, and Christmas tree. However, when each matchstick burns, the wonderful things in that light gone. Finally, she decided to light up the last matchstick and she saw her grandmother. She said “Oh, take me with you! You go away when the match burns out; you vanish like the warm stove, like the delicious roast g...

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...these two books with different author, different published century, different ways to create the story. It seems like different, but it’s the same in some way.
As a result, I compare and contrast “The Little Match Girl” by Hans Christian Andersen and “Ladder to The Moon” by Maya Soetoro-N G, illustrated by YuYi Morales. These two books seem like differently, but it has the same issue, same message to the reader. After I compares these two books together, I figure out the same message for this life are family love is really important on peeson’s life. Even our family members passed away, but we are still a family and miss each other. On the other hand, hopefully is also one of the motivations in our life. It doesn’t matter who, what, when, where, or why, we still need to keep our dream in the head and don’t ever give up like these two girls in two different story.

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