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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