Unfortunately, although Pinkney's artwork is lovely, the narrative has been so watered down that the result is a bland, uninteresting copy of the original. Like the original, this is a tale set in "fairy-land," and the storyteller (and reader) is free to imagine them as she wishes. In this retelling, the characters are of African, rather than European extraction, although no culturally specific details are given to anchor the story to a particular place. Hans Christian Andersen's classic tale of a tiny girl - no bigger than a thumb - is considerably abridged in this adaptation by Brian Pinkney - winner of the Coretta Scott King Medal for In the Time of the Drums, and two-time recipient of a Caldecott Honor. Thumbelina, illustrated by Brian Pinkney.
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