Thumb Alena Illustrated Novel Project

If you’ve heard the version of Thumbelina with a tiny, obedient, and helpless girl at the mercy of toads, who awaits rescue from one child marriage after another, drifts without aim through the woods, and is unable to do anything but be beautiful, then you haven’t heard the real story.

Since 2016, Claire Luce Baldwin has been creating an illustrated novel reimagining Thumbelina as an illustrated epic for young adult audiences. The manuscript is now in its third draft, and Patreon supporters can access exclusive excerpts, as well as merchandise and even original paintings.

illustration of a bad-ass Thumbelina, a teenage girl backpacking through a woodland scene. Watercolor illustration.

A teenage girl flying on the back of a kestrel hawk with a sunset over mountains in the background. Watercolor illustration.

Illustrated book cover for a re-imagined, dark Thumbelina. A girl sitting with moth wings. Hand lettered text.

A young elf woman, character illustration with watercolor and ink.

A watercolor illustration of fairy woodland market conversions. Includes acorns, mushrooms, rope, snails, frogshead, pawful

Watercolor illustration of a hot elf woman with a mouse maid.

Illustration of an elf woman surrounded by natural items like flowers, mushrooms, pinecone, etc.

Watercolor illustration of a scary fairy with a sword, at night, surrounded by bluebells.

Thumb Alena Illustrated Novel Project

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