What Is The Story Of Thumbelina?

A woman longs for a child and asks a witch to help her. The witch gives her a grain of barley, which grows into a flower; inside the flower is a tiny girl just an inch tall. The woman is very happy until one day Thumbelina is carried off by an old toad, to be a wife for the toad's son. She escapes from them with the help of some fishes, and starves and shivers through the winter until she is rescued by a kind old field-mouse. They live comfortably until the field-mouse tries to arrange a marriage for Thumbelina with her neighbour, a mole who, to her horror, wants her to live underground with him. In the passage connecting the field-mouse's home with the mole's, she finds a seemingly dead bird and warms it back to life. In the spring the bird, a swallow, takes her away on his back; in a warm country they find a kingdom of people just like Thumbelina, who marries their king.