Production Companies

Rankin/Bass Productions, Videocraft International, Embassy Pictures Corporation

Overview

"Before the Little Mermaid, there was..."

A young Hans Christian Andersen goes in search of knowledge in the Garden of Paradise in order to make his studies easier. Each time he falls asleep, he experiences in his dreams the different characters he would later write about in fairy tales including The Little Mermaid, Thumbelina, and The Emperor's New Clothes.