Thumbelina

A woman longed for a child and a witch gave her a barleycorn to plant. From it grew a tulip, and inside sat a tiny girl no bigger than a thumb. She was named Thumbelina. One night a toad carried her off to marry her son, but fish bit through the lily pad leaf and set her adrift.

A beetle carried her away but abandoned her when his friends found her ugly. She survived the winter in a mouse's house, where a mole proposed marriage. Unwilling to live underground forever, she nursed a swallow back to health. The grateful swallow carried her to a warm land where she met the fairy prince of the flowers, and they married among the blossoms.