The Happy Family

Two naive snails spend their days hoping someday to be taken to the manor hours, cooked, and presented on silver trays - The Happy Family. A bittersweet tale about a little boy who gives one of his tin soldiers to an elderly neighbor who he feels must be very lonely and the anguish the tin soldier feels in being separated from the little boy's family - The Old House. Andersen's satirical comment on society - The Drop of Water. NARRATOR: Aurora Wetzel