The Leaping Match
The Leaping Match recounts the competition between the flea, the grasshopper, and the frog for the hand of the young princess. Despite the boasting of the flea and the grasshopper, it is the frog who proves the cleverest in the end . . . .
Volume Four of Selections from Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales contains more than 15 black and white illustrations by W. Heath Robinson and the following five stories: The Flying Trunk, The Leaping Match, Elfin-Mount, Tommelise, and The Naughty Boy.
