It feels good to start with editions you love, illustrations you adore and adapted versions that are worth analyzing. It is scary to remember what abominations I have back home. Which is also interesting in a way, but... ok, let's procede with this masterpiece of a picture book.
Title:
Thumbelina
Language:
English
Translation
by (if any): not credited (Sindy McKay?)
Adaptation
by (if any): Sindy McKay
Illustrated
by: Quentin Gréban
Andersen
credited as the author on the title page: yes
Place
of issue: San Anselmo, CA, USA
Publishing
house: Treasure Bay
Year
of issue: 2007
Notes: after a French edition (Mijade Publications, 2007)
Annotation: This is probably a staple of how an Andersen
adaptation for small children should be made, if it has to be made at all. Some
of the greatest illustrations Thumbelina ever got work perfectly with simple and
short, but very well-made retelling that, given the book’s aim at pre-readers,
stays remarkably true to the Andersenian spirit.
