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Thumbelina
Thumbelina: Tiny Runaway Bride
Thumbelina
Barbara Ensor
HERE’S A CONTEMPORARY retelling of Andersen’s tale, revamped and fleshed out for today’s hip tweens. As she did in Cinderella (As If You Didn’t Already Know the Tale), Ensor re-imagines this classic, adding her own inimitable humor, flair, and stylish black-and-white silhouette spot illustrations. Thumbelina is that story most of us can’t quite remember. Okay, sure, it’s about a tiny girl just the size of your thumb. But did you know that her troubles (or adventures, if you prefer) begin when she begs her mother to let her sleep outside on the porch? And that in no time she is engaged to a frog, and then a mole, and even receives a proposal from a miniature king?
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Genre: 

  • Fantasy
  • Fiction
  • Juvenile Fiction

Age Level: 

  • 12 and up
Thumbelina review by JPles
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JPles

In the book, Thumbelina, a woman named Anne Marie really wants a baby. Since Anne Marie is not married she goes to a witch who gives her a little seed to plant. She plants the seed and it soon grows into a little girl that is the size of Anne Marie's right thumb. Anne Marie names the girl Thumbelina. Thumbelina begs her mom to let her sleep outside. Anne Marie would never agree because she is worried that something might happen to Thumbelina. Finally, one night Anne Marie lets Thumbelina sleep outside. Thumbelina soon learns that she should have listened to her mom.

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