‘Your name will be Maia.’ That summer the swallow bid a sad farewell to Thumbelina and fl ew back to his nest under the window of a teller of fairy tales. ‘Listen,’ he said to ...

Fairy tales for kids have been a part of storytelling ... The wife plants the barleycorn and surprisingly a tiny girl named Thumbelina emerges from the sprouted flower. One night, when Thumbelina ...