Thumbelina: The Bride Experiment

Where does a witch get a fairy to gift to the "old woman" of 35 who wants a kid? Marry a toad? No thanks.

Rowing a walnut across a plate never prepared 17-year-old Etta for her abduction... erm... grand adventure. Rescued by a ditzy butterfly and a May bug, and playing housekeeper to a Mouse who has lost some of her marbles, is very exciting until Etta realizes she can't escape.

When girls her age start disappearing and she finds one of them dead, she discovers that all is not as it seems in these woods where all the roads loop back on themselves.

Will Etta escape Missus Mouse before she drugs her into oblivion? Why doesn't her recycled wand work? And why is everyone she meets hell bent on marriage?!?

Suitable for 12+, this snarky fairytale retelling of Andersen's Thumbelina has a multiple choice ending—one for optimists and one for pessimists. If you like the Roald Dahl kind of humour, this one is right up your alley.