Thumbelina offers children′s audiences an opportunity to confront the feeling of fear. The story of Thumbelina is, in fact, a "dark fairy tale": "How do you to sleep? It may be fear, but I can′t," says Thumbelina to his older brothers.

The protagonist of the story is small, the smallest, but his fear, great, does not annihilate him. What, on the contrary, makes him victorious in the face of life′s adversities is his curiosity and his courageous desire to learn about reality, even in its cruelest aspects.
It is curiosity that drives Thumbel to vigilant about what his parents say and do, and he is able to warn of danger early and equip himself to cope with it.
From his father′s house to that of the Ogre, through the woods he sets out into the world, to other woods and other houses... Thumbelina does not return to his home and is not lost: his journey continues. In the company of his brothers.

A work that offers much food for thought and insight from the standpoint of the classic fairy tale and language and from the psychological standpoint in the story′s relation to children′s existential experience and their ability to "save themselves." Dedicated to all the Thumbelinae who lightly traverse the world′s forests. Even those devastated by bombs and monsters beyond the hedges....