Hans Christian Andersen

Thumbelina is as pretty and delicate as the flower she was born in, and no bigger than her mother’s thumb. She grows older, but no taller in their happy home until she awakens one morning to a terrible surpise: an ugly mother toad has kidnapped her and wants Thumbelina to marry her even more awfu...

In the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, The Wild Swans, a princess rescues her eleven brothers from a transformative spell cast by their wicked stepmother. This classic story of enchantment is here presented in a remarkable and unusual way—as a series of unfolding illustrations that tell the t...