Makena is meant to represent a young Barbie
At the end, it's shown that Barbie is friends with the Twillerbees. Perhaps as a young girl, they taught her the importance of environmentalism, and now she's telling a tale about them to the kids to inspire them the same way (albeit with a fictionalized, more flawed version of her young self).http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WMG/BarbiePresentsThumbelina
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