No. of pages 32
Published: 2006
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There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2006 by Penguin Putnam Inc .
Susan Jeffers was a Caldecott Honoree for "Stopping by Woods" and an ABBY winner for "Brother Eagle, Sister Sk"y. These outstanding books, in addition to "Hiawatha "and "The Three Jovial Huntsmen," have placed her in the very top rank of American illustrators. Susan Jeffers lives in Croton-on-Hudson, New York.
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.
