Thumbelina
Sign in to saveThumbelina (; ) is a literary fairy tale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. It was first published by C. A. Reitzel on 16 December 1835 in Copenhagen, Denmark, with "The Naughty Boy" and "The Travelling Companion" in the second installment of Fairy Tales Told for Children. Thumbelina is about a tiny girl and her adventures with marriage-minded toads, moles, and cockchafers. She successfully avoids their intentions before falling in love with a flower-fairy prince just her size.
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- Author
- Hans Christian Andersen
- First published
- 1911
- Editions
- 79
- Subjects
- Spanish language materials, Fairy tales, Cuentos de hadas, Literatura juvenil, Cuentos infantiles, Translations into English, Children's stories, Danish, Juvenile literature
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- Thumbelina
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- Illustration by Vilhelm Pedersen,Andersen's first illustrator
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- Tommelise
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- Mary Howitt
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- Hans Christian Andersen
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- Denmark
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- Danish
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- Literary fairy tale
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Thumbelina (; ) is a literary fairy tale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. It was first published by C. A. Reitzel on 16 December 1835 in Copenhagen, Denmark, with "The Naughty Boy" and "The Travelling Companion" in the second installment of Fairy Tales Told for Children. Thumbelina is about a tiny girl and her adventures with marriage-minded toads, moles, and cockchafers. She successfully avoids their intentions before falling in love with a flower-fairy prince just her size.
==Plot== A woman yearning for a child asks a witch for advice and is presented with 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). After the barleycorn is planted and sprouts, a tiny girl named Thumbelina (Tommelise) emerges from its flower.