Thumbelina (Book & Cassette) - Hardcover

Andersen, Hans Christian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0887081142 ISBN 13: 9780887081149

Publisher: Picture Book Studio Audio, 1989

Synopsis

A tiny girl no bigger than a thumb is stolen by a great ugly toad

About this title

From School Library Journal:

PreS - Grade 3-- Another polished presentation in the series, this recording features actress Kelly McGillis reading the classic tale. She employs a variety of voices and accents throughout and, in a nice touch, uses her natural voice for the voice of Thumbelina. The accompanying acoustic music by Mark Isham features reeds and flutes that effectively evoke the rural settings of the story. The tape narration is marred only by several awkward silences during which there seems an unnatural break and there is no music. The accompanying book features a text that is true to the essentials of Andersen's story but that differs in a number of details and incidents from Haugaard's distinguished translation in Complete Fairy Tales and Stories (Doubleday, 1974; o.p.). Johnson's accompanying watercolors are strikingly similar to those by Lisbeth Zwerger, who has illustrated her own version of Thumbeline (Picture Book Studio, 1985) in a slightly darker palette. For general purchase by libraries who are building book/tape collections or who want to increase their Andersen holdings. --Barbara Chatton, College of Education, University of Wyoming, Laramie
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Picture Book Studio Audio
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0887081142
• ISBN 13: 9780887081149
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Johnson David