There among them she saw a door. Behind it, in a cosy little house, lived a field-mouse. ‘Please, may I have a piece of barleycorn to eat,’ Thumbelina begged the field-mouse. ‘I have had ...

Thumbelina herself speaks only a single sentence: “She has been so kind to me,” she remarks of bossy Mrs. Fieldmouse. Bagram Ibatoulline’s gouache and watercolor paintings give Thumbelina a ...