Title: Thumbelina
Language: English
Translation by (if
any): not credited (the text is primarily Lauren Mills’s; it is likely that
she worked with the original)
Adaptation by (if
any): Lauren Mills
Illustrated by:
Lauren Mills
Andersen credited as
the author on the title page: yes
Place of issue: New
York, Boston
Publishing house: Little,
Brown and Company
Year of issue: 2005
Annotation: Beautiful and
heartfelt illustrations, albeit feeling a bit secondhand compared to Mills’s
other works, are compromised by a retelling that tries too hard to strip
Andersen’s text of its melancholy. Progressive ideas, which Mills pushes into
the narrative, often feel superfluous and didactic, although they will
undoubtedly appeal to many parents and some children.
