A boy the size of his father's thumb has a series of adventures, including stopping a pair of thieves, being swallowed by a cow, and tricking a wolf into bringing him back home.
Mid-nineteenth-century little person Mercy Levinia Warren Bump comes of age in the antebellum South before being invited to join the P.T. Barnum circus, through which she pursues limitless international opportunities.
... setting is one way to rehabilitate him, but as disability scholar Michael Chemers points out in his book Staging Stigma: If Tom Thumb was a freak, then the American freak show included the highest rank of melodramatic productions.
After many adventures, a tiny boy, no bigger than his father's thumb, earns a place as the smallest Knight of the Round Table.
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Relates a tiny boy's adventure in a horse's ear, a fish's belly, sharing a hole with a mouse, and at a king's table.
The famous tale from the Brothers Grimm included in this book is only one of the stories from around the world about a very diminutive but resourceful character trying to...
Relates a tiny boy's adventures in a horse's ear, a rabbit hole, a snail shell, a cow's throat, and a wolf's belly.
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3 - 7 years : Ladybird Favourite Tales are the timeless, treasured stories that generations of children have grown up with and loved.