Thumbelina

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Pinkney, Brian (illustrator). 1st ed. 1st ptg., oblong 4to picture book, retold and illustrated in color by Brian Pinkney, signed by him with a small drawing of a flower on the front free endpaper. Fine in fine, unclipped dj, no previous owner's marks.

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Nonsense,” replied the field mouse. “Now don’t be obstinate, or I shall bite you with my white teeth. He is a very handsome mole; the queen herself does not wear more beautiful velvets and furs. His kitchens and cellars are quite full. You ought to be very thankful for such good fortune.” Personalised bedtime book and sleep aid for children - "The Sleepytown Express" - a sleep story & song for calming kids at nighttime As Thumbelina pleased her, she said: ‘As far as I am concerned you may spend the winter with me; but you must keep my room clean and tidy, and tell me stories, for I like that very much.’ And Thumbelina did all that the kind old field-mouse asked, and did it remarkably well too.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. GRACE ROGERS (illustrator). 1st Edition. Illustrated cloth boards, 250 x 190 mm approx. 36pp Illustrated with line drawings and colour photographs. 1944. Adapted from Hans Andersen by Grace Rogers and with lnie drawings by her, figures and scenes created by Lawrence Bradshaw with colour photography by Zoltan Wegner Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Good no d/j (Book- heavy shelf wear to cloth - mainly colour rubbing. No previous owner name or insc. mild marginal soiling, binding sound with no other notable defects). The 2002 animated film The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina is loosely based on the fairy tale. [13] Mattel's Barbie: Thumbelina from 2009 was also presented as a modern retelling of the story, while its plot has little-to-nothing to do with Andersen's tale. [14]

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But he was cautious and said nothing to Thumbelina. He told them he had dug a passage that linked their houses together. ‘You may go along it whenever you like,’ he said. ‘Follow me, and I will show you the way.’ He took a piece of rotten wood which glowed in the dark, and led them along the tunnel. them brought Thumbelina a present, but the best gift of all was a pair of wings that had belonged to a large The birds who had sung in the trees fl ew away. The leaves withered and dropped and Thumbelina shivered with cold. Snow began to fall. Every snowflake that fell felt like a shovelful on tiny Thumbelina. She wrapped herself in a dry leaf but that did not warmher. The day of the wedding arrived. Thumbelina stood in the doorway to look at the sunshine one last time. She heard a bird sing in the sky overhead. It was the swallow. How happy they were to see each other again. ‘Come away with me,’ the swallow said when Thumbelina had told him her sad tale. ‘I will take you to a land where the sun always shines.’ The tiny creature woke very early in the morning and began to cry bitterly when she found where she was, for she could see nothing but water on every side of the large green leaf, and no way of reaching the land.The two fall instantly in love, and get married. The fairy king does not like the name "Thumbelina". A short time before, the mole had dug a long passage under the earth, which led from the dwelling of the field mouse to his own, and here she had permission to walk with Thumbelina whenever she liked. But he warned them not to be alarmed at the sight of a dead bird which lay in the passage. It was a perfect bird, with a beak and feathers, and could not have been dead long. It was lying just where the mole had made his passage. The mole took in his mouth a piece of phosphorescent wood, which glittered like fire in the dark. Then he went before them to light them through the long, dark passage. When they came to the spot where the dead bird lay, the mole pushed his broad nose through the ceiling, so that the earth gave way and the daylight shone into the passage. Oh,” she said, “it is so cold outside. It snows and freezes. Stay in your warm bed, and I will nurse you.” Female toad stole Thumbelina thinking that she would be a perfect wife for her ugly son. She doesn't even think about the fact that her son as a husband can make any girl unhappy. And the worst part is that the toad is busy building a family nest in a swampy where Thumbelina can't survive. But the old toad can't understand all this. Once there was a woman who longed for a child of her own. So she went to a witch to ask for help. ‘Old witch,’ she said. ‘I would dearly like to have a child of my own. Can you help me?’

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How do you think Thumbelina feels when she is told she needs to marry the mole? What makes you think that? How do you think you would have felt in this situation? Farewell, farewell,” she repeated, twining her arm around a little red flower that grew just by her side. “Greet the little swallow from me, if you should see him again.” The mouse thought the mole would make a good husband for Thumbelina because he had lots of food in his kitchen and wore velvets and furs. But Thumbelina, who loved to look at the sky, knew the mole didn’t like the sun, and she would never see the sun again if she married him. Was it right for Thumbelina to say no to marrying the mole? at the heart of the flower sat a little man so fair he was almost transparent, as if he were made of glass. He was wearing a tiny gold crown on his head, and fine shining wings on his shoulders. He was no bigger than Thumblina. He was the flower fairy."Thank you,” said the woman; and she gave the fairy twelve shillings, which was the price of the barleycorn. Then she went home and planted it, and there grew up a large, handsome flower, somewhat like a tulip in appearance, but with its leaves tightly closed, as if it were still a bud. He was rich and learned, no doubt, but he always spoke slightingly of the sun and the pretty flowers, because he had never seen them. Thumbelina was obliged to sing to him, “Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home,” and many other pretty songs. And the mole fell in love with her because she had so sweet a voice; but he said nothing yet, for he was very prudent and cautious. In 1964 Soyuzmultfilm released Dyuymovochka, a half-hour Russian adaptation of the fairy tale directed by Leonid Amalrik. [4] Although the screenplay by Nikolai Erdman stayed faithful to the story, it was noted for satirical characters and dialogues (many of them turned into catchphrases). [5] Toei Animation adapted the fairy tale three times: in 1975 as an animated short, in 1978 in the feature length anime film Thumbelina, and as an episode of World Fairy Tale Series. [6] [7] [8]

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Thumbelina did not say anything; but when the other two had passed on she bent down to the bird, brushed aside the feathers from his head, and kissed his closed eyes gently. ‘Perhaps it was he that sang to me so prettily in the summer,’ she thought. ‘How much pleasure he did give me, dear little bird!’ The mole closed up the hole again which let in the light, and then escorted the ladies home. But Thumbelina could not sleep that night; so she got out of bed, and plaited a great big blanket of straw, and carried it off, and spread it over the dead bird, and piled upon it thistle-down as soft as cotton-wool, which she had found in the field-mouse’s room, so that the poor little thing should lie warmly buried. A walnut shell, elegantly polished, served her for a cradle; her bed was formed of blue violet leaves, with a rose leaf for a counterpane. Here she slept at night, but during the day she amused herself on a table, where the peasant wife had placed a plate full of water. In autumn the swallows fly away to foreign lands; but there are some who are late in starting, and then they get so cold that they drop down as if dead, and the snow comes and covers them over.

This is my house,” said the swallow; “but it would not do for you to live there—you would not be comfortable. You must choose for yourself one of those lovely flowers, and I will put you down upon it, and then you shall have everything that you can wish to make you happy.”