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Thumbelina (/ ˌ θ ʌ m b ə ˈ l iː n ə /; Danish: Tommelise) is a literary fairy tale written by the famous Danish author, Hans Christian Andersen. It was first published by C. A. Reitzel on 16 December 1835 in Copenhagen , Denmark, with "The Naughty Boy" and "The Travelling Companion" in the second installment of Fairy Tales Told for ...
Season Episodes Originally released; First released ... The Super Readers then jump into the Thumbelina book, where Thumbelina can't find her friend Thimble. 24: 24
Thumbelina: A Magical Story (おやゆび姫物語, Oyayubi Hime Monogatari, lit. The Story of the Thumb-Princess ) is a Japanese anime series produced by Enoki Films and adapted from the original 1835 Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale " Thumbelina " by Akiyoshi Sakai.
Thumbelina, a girl the size of a human thumb, embarks on a great adventure in the big wide world. Starring Carrie Fisher as Thumbelina, William Katt as the Flower Prince, Burgess Meredith as Mr. Mortimer Mole, Donovan Scott as Herman Toad, and Conchata Ferrell as Thumbelina's Mother. Narrated by David Hemmings.
The series consists of 26 episodes, each one adapting a popular fairy tale or a literature classic written by a famous author such as: the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, Hans Christian Andersen, Carlo Collodi, Lewis Carroll, Alexandre Dumas, Howard Pyle, Jonathan Swift, Johanna Spyri, L. Frank Baum, E. T. A. Hoffmann, James Halliwell-Phillipps and Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont.
Actress Shelley Duvall, who conceived the series, served as executive producer and host alongside associate producers Bridget Terry and Fred Fuchs.Duvall also starred in three episodes, portraying various characters, and was a featured narrator of three episodes, as well as providing the voice of the animatronic Nightingale, in the episode of the same title.
Olivia Newton-John introduced a series of eight fairy tales for children followed by an environmental message in 1990. Each of the eight videocassettes contained an eight-page booklet with recycling tips; for example, you could recycle the video box printed on eco-friendly paper.
In the early part of 1994, Warner released Thumbelina, which was a major box-office bomb. Another 1994 film was a live-action rendition of the book Black Beauty, which was another box-office bomb for the studio, grabbing only nearly $5 million at the