The Red Shoes By Hans Christian Andersen Listen to the story THE RED SHOES There was once a little girl who was very pretty and delicate, but in summer, she was forced to run about with bare feet; she was so poor and in winter wore very large wooden shoes, which made her little insteps quite red, and that looked so dangerous! In the middle of the village lived old Dame Shoemaker; she sate and sewed together, as well as she could, a little pair of shoes out of old red strips of cloth; they were very clumsy, but it was a kind thought. They were meant for the little girl. The little girl was called Karen. On the very day her mother was buried,…