Through encounters with toads, beetles, and field mice, she learns that staying true to yourself leads to the most magical destinations. After being kidnapped by a toad intending to marry her off to her son, she escapes with the help of kind river creatures. Directed by don bluth, gary goldman
Thumbelina by redinu on DeviantArt
With gino conforti, barbara cook, jodi benson, will ryan
Adapted from the danish fairy tale by hans christian andersen
When a tiny girl named thumbelina gets kidnapped from her home by a toad, many adventures follow. She was scarcely half as long as a thumb, and they gave her the name of little thumb, or thumbelina, because she was so small 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.
A victorian editor gave her the english name under which she is now most familiar, thumbelina In terms of analysis, we can say that ‘thumbelina’ contains many of the classic tropes of fairy tales A kindly but lonely heroine, a frog suitor, a prince with whom the heroine lives happily ever after. Thumbelina was in fact created by don bluth and his animation studio
Bluth was a disney animator back in the 1970s, but he subsequently left and made a variety of movies, some being remembered fondly and others less so
Thumbelina is in the “less so” group But i’ve always loved thumbelina. Thumbelina, also called tiny thumbelina, is a fairy tale written by h This enchanting story follows the adventure of thumbelina, a tiny girl born from a flower, who faces a series of trials and decisions about where she truly belongs
