This book is part of a book series called Silver Penny Stories .
There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2013 by Sterling Publishing Co Inc .
Linda Olafsdottir's illustrations have appeared in trade picture books--including three of Sterling Publishing's Silver Penny Stories--and educational books, and on stamps, cereal boxes, and children's clothing. Linda was nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. Play! is her first picture book for Cameron Kids. Linda lives in Reykjavik, Iceland, with her husband and two kids. Kathleen Olmstead is the author of several Classic Starts books, including Anne of Avonlea and Moby Dick, as well as Jacques Cousteau: A Life Under the Sea (9781402744402) and Matthew Henson: The Quest for the North Pole (9781402744419), both in the Sterling Biographies series. Marcos Calo has worked as a concept artist for several animated movies, most notably Planet 51 and Despicable Me, while also illustrating for over 14 years.
This book contains the following story:
Thumbelina
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 to marry his son and keeps her captive on a lilypad, until she is rescued by a beetle who takes her back to his family. She runs away into the forest only to be met by a mole who thinks she is so lovely he must marry her. Eventually Thumbalina escapes on the back of a swallow.
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