Little Thumb

Name: Little Thumb
Author: Charles Perrault
ISBN: 9781911144298

Author: Charles Perrault
Read by: Josh Verbae
Series: Children's Classics
Language: English
Length: 22 minutes
ISBN: 9781911144298
Published: 15 November 2015
Imprint: Sovereign

Little Thumb
The Sleeping Beauty
Charles Perrault
fairy tale
children
magic
bedtime
stories
folklore
good and evil

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Description

A woodcutter and his wife have seven boys they cannot feed. The youngest is no bigger than a thumb — slight, silent, and sharper than anyone thinks. Perrault’s tale of hunger, the forest, and a child who finds a way. Read in English, unabridged.

Author

Charles Perrault (1628–1703) set down the French fairy tales that still furnish childhood. A man of Louis XIV's court and the Académie Française, he gathered Cinderella, Puss in Boots, Sleeping Beauty, and Little Red Riding Hood into forms polished enough for the salon and stubborn enough to keep their peasant bone. Perrault wrote as if wonder needed manners — and as if manners still hid wolves, pumpkins, and glass slippers.

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