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By HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN

Pictures by GUS!irAF TENGGREN
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This is th.e sto1-y ·of THUMBELlNA..

You can read .cif.tm.g with me i:n y'Oit1" book.
You will krww it is time to titrn the page when you hea1·
Thumbelina'$ th~ play like t1iis . . .

LET'S BEGIN NOW:

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O nce there was a tiny li!ttle gir l wh,o could fit into the
palm of your hand. This dainty girl was scarcely bigger
than your thumb. So she was named Thumbelina.
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 In a small, quiet garden she made her home. She
slept in a nicely varnished walnut shell bed, with a soft
violet petal for a mattress an.d a warm rose petal for a
coverlet.
She spent her days rowing he:r tiny tulip-petal boat
from one s ide of tlhe little· gairden to the other.

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 As she sailed beneath the lovely flowers which grew
on t he banks of her little lagoon, Thumbelina was
thinking how pleasant her life was.
But this was soon to change.

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 One night as she lay dreaming in her walnut shell
bed, a big ugly toad came hopping by and saw the lovely
maiden.
"Well, look at this tiny creature lying asleep here.
She would make a wonderful wife for my ugly son!"

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 So while Thumbelina still slept, the mother toad
snatched up the ·w.a lnut sh.ell bed and hopped back to
her home on a muddy river bank. The toad put the
sleeping girl on a water lily leaf way o,u t m the middle
of the river. Then. she hopped off into the rushes to
tell her son the good news.

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 In the morning, when poor Th.u mbelina woke up, she
found herself trapped. out on the water.
''Oh, dear. What has happened to me? How did I
get here?n And when she saw that she couldn't escape,
Thumbelina. sat down on the water lily and cr i.ed most
s bitterly.
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 The little fish, swimming in the water below, heard
the crying. They knew what the ugly mother toad was
planning, so they took pity on the sad, tiny girl. The
fish chewed through the tough, green stalk of the lily
and let Thumbelina float down the river, far from the
u ly toads.
 At last her leaf boat stopped against a mossy bank,
in a strange forest world.
She had no way to travel farthet, so all through
the summer Thumbelina lived quite alone in that
enormous wood. She wove a bed fr·o m bEades, of
grass and hung it neatly under a leaf, where she was
sheltered from the rain.
For food she had honey Jfr·Om the flowers, for drink,
the morning dew on the leaves. And so she passed the
summer and autumn.

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 Then came winter - the bitter winter. All the birds
flew away and the flowers withered. The great leaf
under which she had lived shriveled to a faded yellow
stalk.
As Thumbelina searched for a new shelter, it began
to snow, and every snowflake t hat fell on her was as if
a whole shovelful were thrown on one of us, so delicate
and tiny was she.
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 Wandering through the cold, Thumbelina came at
last to a field mouse's door. Down below the st111b,b]e
of a large cornfield, the field mouse had a fine, snug
house, with a whole storeroom full of corn.
The kindly mouse had just come outside to gather
moss for the fire when she found.Thumbelina shivering
at her door.
"Oh, you poor little thing! Come into my warm
room and have a bite with me. Then you won't be so
cold on your way home.',

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 "Thank you, kind mouse. But I have no home."
"N,o home? We can't have that. Hmmm. If you
promise to keep my house tidy and tell me stories, then
you may stay the winter with me. How's that?"
"Oh, that sounds wonderful."

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 So 'Th umbelina made her home with the fi.eld mouse
and spent a happy time that winter. It would hav·e been
perfect, except for those evenings when the tiresome
Mr. Mole came to visit. He wanted Thumbelina for his
bride.
"Marry me and you will be well off, my little
sweet potato."
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 "It's true, Thumbelina," said the field mouse. "He
dresses well, and his house is even snugger than mine.''
"Ah yes indeed, my sweet. You can live with me
in my nice, dark, underground home, away from those
ugly flowers and butterflies and sunshine."
But Thumbelina loved the sunshine and everything
there, so, she paid no attent:i!on. ·t o the mole.

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 One day Thumbelina f'o und a poor swallow, al] numb
with cold and almost dead. She took it to a little cave
for shelt er.
She wove a fine big blanket of hay and she spread
it over the swallow and tucked some C·o tton wool in at
t he sides. She brought h im water in the petal of a
f lower, and took care of him all winter long.

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When she was not caring for the swallow,

T hurnbelina spent her time spinning and weaving her
wedding gown, with the help of some spiders. Even
though Thumbelina still disliked the mole, the mouse
had decided they should wed. And to please t he mouse,
who had been so kind, the girl obeyed.
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 Although the field mouse kept saying how
wonderful the marriage would be, poor Thumbelina
grew sadder and sadder as the wedding day drew near.
She would have to say good-bye to the sun and the
flowers, since the mole did not care for them.
When spring arrived and the sun began to warm
the earth, Thumbelina went to the cave and helped the
swallow step out into the pleasant sunshine.

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 The swallow was aruaous to e could
not bear to leave Thumbelina, knowing that she would
soon be living underground forever with the mole.
"Come with me, Thumbelina. You can sit on my
back, and we shall fly away to the warm countries,
where it is always summer, with lovely flowers."
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"Oh, that would be wonderful! Yes, of course I 'll
come with you."
So she climbed on the bird's back, settled her :feet
on its wings, and tied her sash firmly to his feathers.
Then the swallow flew high up into the air, over lakes
and forests, high up over the mountains of everlasting
snow.

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At last they rea,c hed the warm countries, where

grapes. grow on s:unny walls and slopes, and lemo,ns
and oranges ripened in the grov,es.
The swallow f[ew on, while the co,u ntry becam,e
more and more beautiful, until at last t hey came to
an an,cient palace of shining marble, standing among
.g reen trees beside a blue lake. H,e re the swallo,w flew
down with Thumbelina.
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He placed her on a broad flower petal - and ther~,

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in the middle of the flower, was a handso,me little man
no bigger t han herself.
"Welcome, fair maiden. I am King of the Flower
Sprites." 21
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''Hello, your majesty. I am Thumbelina.
''You are indeed lovely , T.h umbelina. Long have I
searched for someone like you to share my kingdom.
Will you stay and be my queen?''
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 Thumbelina knew at once that he was the husband
for her, so she answered, "Yes, I would love to."
Then the tiny king gave Thumbelina his crown,
and all the Flower Sprites came out to ,g reet their new
queen. They presented her with a beautifu.l pair of
butterfly wings, so that she could fly with them from
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 Su":h rejoicing as there was then!
At last 'T humbelina knew she had found. the place
for her.

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 Complete Your Little Golden
Book and Record•Library with
the Following Titles:

201 THE SAGGY BAGGY ELEPHANT

202 TAWNY SCRAWNY LION
200 THE POKY LITTl.E PUPPY
204 RUMPE'LSTILTSKIN
2'1:1!i SCUFFY THE TUGBOAT
206 TIHUM BELINA
007 LIITUE BO,Y WITH A BIG HORN
208 PUSS IN BOOTS
2t9 CHICKEN LITTLE
210 THE LARGE ANO GROWLY BEAR
Zt1 TOOTLE
212 THE COL.OR 1<11 IENS
213 THE HAPPY MAN ANO HIS DUMP TRUCK
214 "ll'HE "ll'A)(I THAT HURRIED
215 SMOl<EV T HE Bl;A.R
216 THE LITTLE EN<llNE. THAT COULD
217 THE PUSSYCAT TIGER
218 DAVID ANO GOLIATH
219 NOAH'S ARK
220 THE LIVELY LI TTl.E RABBIT
221 CIRCUS TIME
222 SEVEN LI TTL.e POSTMEN
223 THERE'S NO SUCIH THINIG AS A DRAGON
22'6 THE LITTLE FAT POLICEMAN
252 RUDOLPH T HE RED-NOSE REINDEER
253 FROSTY THE SNOW MAN
254 THE TWELVE CAYS OF CHRISTMAS
• 255 JINGLE BBLLS

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