Hello.
Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales are "public domain," which means
that you do not need anyone's permission to tell them in your own
words in writing.
See:
"Stories and Characters That Have Had Their Copyright Expire
...Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen"
source: PDImages.com
http://www.pdimages.com/stories.htm
"...Disney would have little intellectual property to protect without
its free borrowings from materials in the public domain, among them
the tales of Hans Christian Andersen, the Brothers Grimm, Victor Hugo,
Rudyard Kipling, and classical mythology."
source: Philadelphia Inquirer
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/magazine/daily/7014772.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp&1c
Keep in mind, though, that the illustrations in a new edition or the
text of some new translation might be subject to copyright.
See:
"...the text of Hans Christian Anderson's fairy tales are in the
public domain, however a reprint with new illustrations would carry
copyright for the illustrations."
source:
Union College
http://www.ucollege.edu/ucscripts/public/template/default.asp?DivID=1&pgID=472
However, that shouldn't be an issue for you, as you mention that you
plan to re-tell the stories in your own words.
In any case, here are some sites with public domain texts of
Andersen's fairy tales that you can use without anyone's permission:
Hans Christian Andersen
Fairy Tales and Stories
English Translation: H. P. Paull (1872)
http://hca.gilead.org.il/
The Project Gutenberg Etext of Andersen's Fairy Tales
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/hcaft10.txt
Andersen's Fairy Tales at TheFreeLibrary.com
http://andersen.thefreelibrary.com/Andersens-Fairy-Tales
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