Little Thumb, Charles Perrault
Little Thumb, Charles Perrault
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Little Thumb

Author: Charles Perrault

Narrator: Josh Verbae

Unabridged: 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/15/2015


Synopsis

Once upon a time there was a woodcutter and his wife, who had seven children, all boys. The eldest was but ten years old, and the youngest only seven.
They were very poor, and their seven children were a great source of trouble to them because not one of them was able to earn his bread. What gave them yet more uneasiness was that the youngest was very delicate, and scarce ever spoke a word, which made people take for stupidity that which was a sign of good sense. He was very little, and when born he was no bigger than one’s thumb; hence he was called Little Thumb. Read in English, unabridged.

About Charles Perrault

Charles Perrault was born in Paris on January 1628. Son of an upper-class burgeois family, he attended the best schools and became a lawyer in 1651. He wrote Parallels Between the Ancients and the Moderns, which compared the authors of antiquity unfavorably to modern writers, and became a member of the Academie Francaise in 1671.

His Stories or Tales from Times Past, with Morals: Tales of Mother Goose, published in 1697, gave him great popularity and opened up a new literary genre: fairy tales. Among his most famous versions of fairy tales are "Blue Beard," "Sleeping Beauty on the Woods," "Little Red Riding Hood," "The Master Cat or Puss in Boots," "Cinderella," "Little Thumb," and "Donkey Skin."
He died in Paris on May 1703.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Georgiana-Laura on November 21, 2018

Review for "Tom Thumb" by Charles Perrault: It's one of the well-known fairy tales by French author, Charles Perrault. It's also known in English as "Hop-o'-My-Thumb", "Little Thumbling", "Little Thumb" or "Little Poucet". The story follows a boy small as a thumb's adventures. The readers will learn......more

Goodreads review by Federico on November 25, 2024

Excellent. This was excellent, but not going to review it. For the moment at least. It’s public domain. You can find it HERE. ----------------------------------------------- PERSONAL NOTE: [1700] [10p] [Children's] [Highly Recommendable] ----------------------------------------------- ★★★★☆ Perra......more

Goodreads review by Aletheiia on December 31, 2021

No me ha gustado mucho porque pienso que todos los personajes tienen feas cualidades. 😥......more

Goodreads review by colline!! on January 05, 2025

un conte pour ENFANTS donc hmm c bien c pas traumatisant......more

Goodreads review by Angélique on March 24, 2016

Comme vous le savez surement depuis un moment maintenant, j'aime beaucoup les livres pour enfants. Et ce notamment car je souhaite devenir institutrice. Je commence donc à me faire petit à petit ma bibliothèque. Lorsque les éditions Balivernes m'ont envoyé un mail pour me parler de ce livre, je dois......more