Saturday

Thumbelina illustrated by Elsa Beskow



'Däumelischen' - Thumbelina, 1920
by H.C. Andersen (1805-75)
illustrated by Elsa Beskow (1874-1935)

Purchase the book here


link

I've already posted some of the images
but it is nice to see them together with the
rest of the illustrations, I think...










2 comments:

ceparie said...

As a child, Thumbelina was my favorite fairy tale. Wouldn't it be fun to see a child draw pictures from the story?

Aputsiaq said...

I sure would! In too many homes the story telling is dead...many children do not read fairy tales by the "old" writers anymore. Sadly!