Once upon a time, a King had eleven sons and one daughter. When his wife, the Queen, died, the King remarried. The new wife and the children's stepmother looks beautiful on the outside, but actually she's an evil witch. She sends the young princess Eliise to live in the village as an ordinary peasant girl and turns all the princes into wild swans. The princes are stuck being sw...
七岁的玛雅(金井美香 配音)非常调皮,这让玛雅的妈妈(麻上洋子 配音)感到十分头痛,于是,她找到了村里有名的魔法师,向他讨教良方。魔法师给了玛雅的妈妈一本名为《拇指姑娘》的故事书,在给玛雅念这本书时,玛雅的妈妈睡着了,玛雅也因此变成了拇指大小,进入了书中的世界。
在这里,玛雅遇见了名为席拉(宗形智子 配音)的善良仙女,席拉告诉玛雅,在南国住着一位水晶王子,只有他才能唤醒玛雅的妈妈,使玛雅回到原来的世界。就这样,玛雅踏上了前往南国的旅途。途中,玛雅遇见了小精灵布尔(山田恭子 配音),两人结伴而行,随后,青蛙盖洛达也加入了玛雅的队伍中去,对他们时时阻挠的,是一个名叫赫鲁拉(麻上洋子 配音)的邪恶魔鬼。