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Born of a flower and growing to only a couple of inches tall, poor Thumbelina is worried she'll never meet someone her own size, until she happens to catch the eye of Prince Cornelius of the Fairies. Just as soon as she finds love, however, it's torn away from her when she is kidnapped by Ms. Toad. Now Thumbelina has to escape Ms. Toad's grasp and search for Prince Cornelius. Luckily, there's a whole city of animals willing to help her.

Thumbelina is the answer to her mother's prayers but is all too soon stolen away by Mother Toad as a wife for her son. With the help of many different woodland creatures, especially the Swallow, Thumbelina overcomes many obstacles to try and get back to her mother.

The dam where Thumbelina and her father live is breaking due to the rising waters in the nearby pond. Father worries that when spring comes, the melting snows will rise the water higher than ever causing the dam to crack and water to flow over the meadow, thus drowning the little people who live there. Father believes he is too old to take on the journey to find the prince and warn him and his people, so he asks his daughter to go instead. Thumbelina agrees, but in her journey she mets a great deal of characters, both good and evil. To someone not bigger than a human's thumb, dealing with the evil intentions of Mona, a greedy mouse, will prove to be a big challenge.

The Marvelous Magician gifts the kind widow Hobbs on her birthday with a tiny child - Thumbelina. Percival the Pig, Hobbs' companion, gets very jealous of Thumbelina and arranges for a bullfrog to kidnap her.

The beloved fairy tale is brought to life, faithfully following the traditional storyline, with gentle touches of humor.

Retelling of the classic children's tale from a 1960s psychedelic viewpoint.

Thumbelina, barely bigger than a thumb, sets off on a journey with the wind to discover the world. She encounters two toads who want to keep her as their bride or daughter-in-law, a fish who helps her escape from this family idyll, a vain and superficial May beetle who also wants to marry her, and a field mouse who tries to set the girl up with a mole. Time and again, Thumbelina manages to escape. She learns that you have to fight for your happiness, that it is not outward appearances but inner values that make a person who they are.

The earliest animated version of the tale by Hans Christian Andersen is a silent, black-and-white release by director Herbert M. Dawley in 1924.

Meet a tiny girl named Thumbelina who lives in harmony with nature in the magical world of the Twillerbees that's hidden among the wildflowers. At the whim of a spoiled young girl named Makena, Thumbelina and her two friends have their patch of wildflowers uprooted and are transported to a lavish apartment in the city.

A tiny girl, only as long as a man's thumb, is born to a childless woman, abducted by frogs who want her to marry their son, but escaping instead (with the help of a bumblebee) to find a real prince without having to kiss the frog first.

Mia is a young girl with a knack for getting herself into trouble. One night, when her mother falls asleep while reading "Thumbelina" to her, Mia is magically transformed into the two-inch tall character. As she journey's through "the Unknown Country of Wonderland," Mia will be forced to overcome obstacles that help her grow as a person.

A story based on the popular Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale "Thumbelina".

Based on famous fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen.

Hans Christian Andersen’s Thumbelina told the tale of a tiny girl grown from seed to be a companion to an old woman, Reiniger has her Thumbelina born spontaneously and magically from a flower, beholden to none but herself.

A stop-motion puppet animation adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson's Thumbelina.

Thumbelina is born in a calyx. A bumblebee opens the flower and the little one goes on a journey of discovery. She has to hide from a nubile frog in a nut and lands on a water lily leaf. A fish bites through the stem of the leaf. Thumbelina swims down the stream until she is called to dance by a cockchafer. The dance fails and the beetle pushes her off the leaf into the depths. She falls into a spider's web and onto a dandelion. She sails away with an umbrella of seeds and lands on her calyx again. The autumn storm breaks the flower. Thumbelina finds shelter with a field mouse. There she cares for a sick swallow. The mouse wants to marry Thumbelina off to the mole, but the little girl manages to escape with the help of the swallow. They both fly off to the sunny south.

A reclusive ogre lives alone in a large garden where he spends his days eating and gardening. One day, he meets a tiny woman who has fallen from the back of a swallow. An unusual friendship is born but their nature takes over again: TommeLise wants to leave while the ogre's appetite wakes up.

The stars of CBeebies bring to life this magical adventure about a thumb-sized girl in an oversized world of plants and animals, as Thumbelina tries to find out who she really is. Inspired by the tale by Hans Christian Andersen, the show features many of Cbeebies' favourite faces. This enchanting story is brought to life with colourful characters, comedy and 60s-inspired music, including several original new songs.

The Great Meadow is the home of a beautiful little fairy, named Thumbelina. Tom Thumb is a devoted servant to King Richard. Tom finds out of a plan from the King’s son, Medwin, who wants to build a gigantic castle in the Great Meadow. Tom Thumb and Thumbelina prove that size doesn’t matter and work together to save the Great Meadow.

Voiced by Elijah Wood, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and others, this film features Tom Thumb and Thumbelina, the tiny, famed fairy-tale favorites, who are together for the first time in this heartwarming, magical musical story about courage and friendship. After 15 years, the two reunite and remember when their village was destroyed by a giant. Soon, they find out that they have neat powers they can use for good.

A small-town shoemaker with a knack for spinning yarns, Hans encounters happiness and heartbreak on his road to becoming a full-fledged writer.