Gerta is amazed to see a tiny girl emerging from a magical flower and adopts the small maiden, naming her Thumbelina, but while Gerta sleeps a strange creature steals Thumbelina, leaving her alone in the forest and dependant on the aid of the forest animals to find her way home again.
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