Born of a flower and growing to only a couple of inches tall, poor Thumbelina is worried she'll never meet someone her own size, until she happens to catch the eye of Prince Cornelius of the Fairies.

‘Why, she is no bigger than the tip of my thumb. I will call her Thumbelina.’ Thumbelina was very contented. At night she slept under a rose petal in a polished walnut shell. By day she rowed ...

This retelling of the Hans Christian Andersen classic fairy tale has the digit-sized heroine evading the clutches of various toads, moles, and beetles before she can proceed with her courtship ...