![]() ![]() One night, Thumbelina, asleep in her walnut-shell cradle, is carried off by a toad who wants her as a bride for her son. After the barleycorn is planted and sprouts, a tiny girl named Thumbelina (Tommelise) emerges from its flower. She successfully avoids their intentions before falling in love with a flower-fairy prince just her size.Ī woman yearning for a child asks a witch for advice, and is presented with a barley which she is told to go home and plant (in the first English translation of 1847 by Mary Howitt, the tale opens with a beggar woman giving a peasant's wife a barleycorn in exchange for food). Thumbelina is about a tiny girl and her adventures with marriage-minded toads, moles, and cockchafers. ![]() Reitzel on 16 December 1835 in Copenhagen, Denmark, with "The Naughty Boy" and "The Travelling Companion" in the second instalment of Fairy Tales Told for Children. Thumbelina ( / ˌ θ ʌ m b ə ˈ l iː n ə/ Danish: Tommelise) is a literary novel bedtime story fairy tale written by the famous Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. ![]()
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