Thumbelina

Elsa Beskow's charming illustrations bring to life this classic Hans Christian Andersen tale of a thumb-sized girl who has big adventures. Thumbelina is so small she sleeps in a walnut shell bed with a rose petal sheet. One day, a toad steals her away from her home and keeps her captive on a lilypad, until some fish set her free to find her way through the countryside. Will Thumbelina ever find a new home among friends? This wonderful new edition of Thumbelina faithfully reproduces Beskow's classic illustrations in a collectable picture book featuring a unique hand-crafted design, premium-quality paper, gold foil signature and a luxurious cloth spine. Create an Elsa Beskow library by collecting all of the gorgeous new editions.

Thumbelina is a story about a little girl born from a barley seed who goes through many adventures. She escapes from the frogs but falls directly into the claws of a beetle, who soon leaves her, and the poor girl is left alone in the cold dark forest. Then she meets a field mouse who introduces her to a mole, and this meeting almost turns into a wedding. Fate has prepared for Thumbelina many adventures and encounters, from which she will take her lessons. But little Thumbelina has a big kind heart, which helps her to save herself and save a swallow, who takes her to warm lands, where Thumbelina falls in love with the king of elves. Collection: My First Tales Illustrated by Julia Gukova Retold by Clara Wedersøe Strunge “My first tales” is a collection of H. C. Andersen’s world-famous fairy tales that have been gently retold for our young readers. Each book from this collection is illustrated by an award-winning artist. Hans Christian Andersen Copenhagen has carefully selected artists for each individual fairy tale, in order to convey the mood of the tale as well as to create magical and memorable characters. Each book from the “My first tales” collection contains an interesting story about the life of H. C. Andersen and is accompanied by a short interview with an illustrator.

Thumbelina is a story about a little girl born from a barley seed who goes through many adventures. She escapes from the frogs but falls directly into the claws of a beetle, who soon leaves her, and the poor girl is left alone in the cold dark forest. Then she meets a field mouse who introduces her to a mole, and this meeting almost turns into a wedding. Fate has prepared for Thumbelina many adventures and encounters, from which she will take her lessons. But little Thumbelina has a big kind heart, which helps her to save herself and save a swallow, who takes her to warm lands, where Thumbelina falls in love with the king of elves. Collection: My First Tales Illustrated by Julia Gukova Retold by Clara Wedersøe Strunge “My first tales” is a collection of H. C. Andersen’s world-famous fairy tales that have been gently retold for our young readers. Each book from this collection is illustrated by an award-winning artist. Hans Christian Andersen Copenhagen has carefully selected artists for each individual fairy tale, in order to convey the mood of the tale as well as to create magical and memorable characters. Each book from the “My first tales” collection contains an interesting story about the life of H. C. Andersen and is accompanied by a short interview with an illustrator.

The title of this timely and thought-provoking book, a French bestseller, refers to schoolgirls sending text messages to their friends on their smart phones. Michel Serres, one of France's most important living intellectuals, uses this image to get at something far broader: that humans are formed and shaped by technologies, and that with the advent of computers, smart phones, and the Internet, a new human is being born. These new humans beings are our children-thumbelina (petite poucette) and tom thumb (petit poucet)-but technologies have been changing so fast that parents scarcely know their children. Serres documents this cultural revolution, arguing that there have been several similar revolutions in the past: from oral cultures to cultures focused on reading and writing; the advent of the printing press; and now the complex changes brought about by the new information technologies-changes that are taking place at an accelerated pace and that affect us all.

The title of this timely and thought-provoking book, a French bestseller, refers to schoolgirls sending text messages to their friends on their smart phones. Michel Serres, one of France's most important living intellectuals, uses this image to get at something far broader: that humans are formed and shaped by technologies, and that with the advent of computers, smart phones, and the Internet, a new human is being born. These new humans beings are our children-thumbelina (petite poucette) and tom thumb (petit poucet)-but technologies have been changing so fast that parents scarcely know their children. Serres documents this cultural revolution, arguing that there have been several similar revolutions in the past: from oral cultures to cultures focused on reading and writing; the advent of the printing press; and now the complex changes brought about by the new information technologies-changes that are taking place at an accelerated pace and that affect us all.