The Marvelous Magician gifts the kind widow Hobbs on her birthday with a tiny child - Thumbelina. Percival the Pig, Hobbs' companion, gets very jealous of Thumbelina and arranges for a bullfrog to ...

‘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 ...