<Li> Breadcrumbs by Anne Ursu is a children's book set in modern times that is heavily inspired by the plot of "The Snow Queen ." </Li> <Li> French artist Stéphane Blanquet illustrated a version of the Snow Queen published in France in 2010 by Gallimard Jeunesse (ISBN 9782070641154) </Li> <Li> Frozen, an animated film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released in 2013, is inspired by The Snow Queen . A film adaptation of the original tale had been in development since the late 1930s when Walt Disney took an interest in Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales . The protagonists of Kai and Gerda were rewritten as Queen Elsa of Arendelle and her younger sister Princess Anna, respectively . Elsa also took some elements of the original fairy tale's Snow Queen, such as having the ability to produce ice from her bare hands, but while the character from the original fairy tale was neutral and, to some degree, villainous, Elsa is depicted as a main character . <Ul> <Li> Characters created for Frozen subsequently appeared in the television series Once Upon a Time, which airs on the ABC network . A related character original to that series named Ingrid (played by Elizabeth Mitchell) is referred to as "the Snow Queen" and is depicted as Elsa and Anna's aunt as well as being a more faithful adaptation of the Queen's original depiction . Her storyline involved the use of a cursed mirror (similar to the troll mirror in the Andersen story). In the show, the name of Elsa and Anna's mother is Gerda, which is the name of the main female heroine from the original fairy tale . </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Ul> <Li> Characters created for Frozen subsequently appeared in the television series Once Upon a Time, which airs on the ABC network . A related character original to that series named Ingrid (played by Elizabeth Mitchell) is referred to as "the Snow Queen" and is depicted as Elsa and Anna's aunt as well as being a more faithful adaptation of the Queen's original depiction . Her storyline involved the use of a cursed mirror (similar to the troll mirror in the Andersen story). In the show, the name of Elsa and Anna's mother is Gerda, which is the name of the main female heroine from the original fairy tale . </Li> </Ul>

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