Hop-o'-My-Thumb
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Hop-o'-My-Thumb also known as Little Thumbling, Little Thumb, or Little Poucet, is one of the eight fairy tales published by Charles Perrault in Histoires ou Contes du temps passé, now world-renowned.
Illustration by Gustave Doré (1862)
Illustration by Gustave Doré, from Les Contes de Perrault (1862), depicting Hop-o'-My-Thumb hiding under a stool, listening to his parents as they discuss abandoning him and his brothers.
Hop-o'-My-Thumb with the sleeping ogre, as shown at the Efteling.
Hop-o'-My-Thumb, as shown at the Efteling.
Histoires ou contes du temps passé, avec des moralités, or Contes de ma mère l'Oye, is a collection of literary fairy tales written by Charles Perrault, published in Paris on 11 January 1697. The work
Hop-o'-My-Thumb
…known as Little Thumbling, Little Thumb, or Little Poucet (French: Le Petit Poucet), is one of the eight fairy tales published by Charles Perrault in Histoires ou Contes du temps passé (1697), now world-renowned. It is Aarne-Thompson type 327B, the small boy defeats the ogre (in other versions of this fairy tale the character is a…
Title page from the first edition (1697)
17th-century portrait of Charles Perrault by Philippe Lallemand
Title page of the 1695 manuscript of Charles Perrault's Contes de ma mère l'Oye (The Morgan Library & Museum, New York)
Illustration of "Puss in Boots" from the 1695 manuscript of the Contes de ma mère l'Oye