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Illustration by Gustave Doré, c.1862

"Hop o' My Thumb" (French: Le petit Poucet) is a fairy tale by Charles Perrault. It was first published in 1697 in Paris by Claude Barbin in Histoires ou contes du temps passé (Stories or Tales of Past Times), a collection of eight fairy tales by Perrault. The story tells of several brothers abandoned by their parents. The smallest brother is the same size as a person's thumb. He saves his brothers from an ogre. Perrault's rhyming moral at the end of the story tells readers that sometimes the smallest boy in the family brings good things to all.

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  • Poucet1

    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.

  • Kleinduimpje Efteling

    Hop-o'-My-Thumb with the sleeping ogre, as shown at the Efteling.

  • Klein Duimpje Efteling

    Hop-o'-My-Thumb, as shown at the Efteling.

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