![]() ![]() ![]() She successfully avoids their intentions before falling in love with a flower-fairy prince just her size. "Thumbelina" is about a tiny girl and her adventures with appearance- and marriage-minded toads, moles, and cockchafers. ![]() Reitzel on 16 December 1835 in Copenhagen, Denmark with "The Naughty Boy" and "The Traveling Companion" in the second installment of Fairy Tales Told for Children. Thumbelina is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen first published by C. They're complex tales, but since Andersen himself was pretty complex, we like to think that art imitates life. Citation de Grummond Childrens Literature Collection Lisl Weil Papers (DG1036) Series II: Books, 1954-1988 Sub-Series J: Gillie and the Flattering Fox by Lisl Weil (New York: Atheneum, 1978). In them, you'll find beauty, tragedy, nature, religion, artfulness, deception, betrayal, love, death, judgment, penance, and-occasionally-a happy ending. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis: creatorOf: Weil, Lisl. But no matter what language they're in, Andersen's tales have got something for everyone. ![]() Today, his stories can be read in over one hundred languages. He hungered for recognition at home (Denmark) and abroad-and he got it! Eventually. In addition to his fairy tales, Andersen wrote poems, plays, novels, travel books, essays, and more. Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author best known for writing children's stories including "The Little Mermaid" and "The Ugly Duckling." But he didn't just write short stories, and his intended audience wasn't restricted to children. ![]()
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