Thumbelina

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Thumbelina is born from a grain of barley planted in the ground: as beautiful as a flower but small as a thumb, the child amazes with her beauty and her sweet voice all those she meets. The earliest animated version of the tale is a silent black-and-white release by director Herbert M. Specific objectives include increasing pupils’ familiarity with a range of texts ‘including fairy stories’ and ’traditional stories’.Here is a barleycorn; it is not exactly of the same sort as those which grow in the farmers’ fields, and which the chickens eat. So one day she went to an old Witch and said to her: ‘I should so much like to have a tiny, little child; can you tell me where I can get one? Thumbelina was very sorry, for she was very fond of all little birds; they had sung and twittered so beautifully to her all through the summer. Large format picture book with a rather "Swinging Sixties" Thumbelina who could have been dressed by Mary Quant! It began to snow, and every snow-flake that fell on her was to her as a whole shovelful thrown on one of us, for we are so big, and she was only an inch high.

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But the corn had been gone a long time; only the dry, bare stubble was left standing in the frozen ground. But perhaps Hans Christian Andersen took the most direct inspiration from the traditional tale of "Tom Thumb". Then he would keep his wedding day with Thumbelina; but now the heat of the sun was so great that it burned the earth and made it hard, like stone.Thumbelina sailed past many towns, and the little birds in the bushes saw her and sang, “What a lovely little creature. Every morning when the sun rose, and every evening when it went down, she stole out of the door, and when the wind blew the corn aside, so that she could see the blue sky, she thought how bright and beautiful it was out here, and wished heartily to see her dear swallow again. The green leaf floated away on the brook, and the butterfly flew with it, for he was fastened to it and could not get away. Even though she was small Thumbelina was very curious, and one day she started investigating the magical world around her. First edition thus hard back binding in publisher's original colour illustrated paper covered boards.

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Thumbelina gazed after him with the tears standing in her eyes, for she was very fond of the swallow. BOOK: Lavishly illustrated by award-winning artist Gennady Spirin, this spectacular collection gathers together six of the most beloved stories by master storyteller Hans Christian Andersen. Tales of Hans Christian Andersen can be used to target a range of Reading and Writing objectives from the KS2 National Curriculum programme of study for English across Y3 to Y6 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and Second Level of the Curriculum for Excellence in Scotland. On March 30, 1994, Warner Brothers released the animated film Thumbelina (1994), [12] directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman, with Jodi Benson as the voice of Thumbelina.Thumbelina is about a tiny girl and her adventures with marriage-minded toads, moles, and cockchafers. Every evening the mole visited her and was continually speaking of the time when the summer would be over. There he was alive, but very weak; he could only open his eyes for a moment and look at Thumbelina, who was standing in front of him with a piece of rotten wood in her hand, for she had no other lantern. Poor little Thumbelina went up to the door and begged for a little piece of barley, for she had not had anything to eat for the last two days.