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Tom Thumb [sound recording] : the remarkable true story of a man in miniature / George Sullivan.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: SoundSoundPublisher number: ABCD 090 | AudioGOSeries: AudioGO children'sPublication details: North Kingstown, RI : AudioGO, p2012.Edition: UnabridgedDescription: 3 sound discs (3 hr., 16 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 1935430904
  • 9781935430902
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Narrated by Barry Press.Summary: When Charles S. Stratton was born in 1838, he seemed perfect in every way. But then he stopped growing. At age four, though a happy and mischievous child, he was just over two feet tall and weighed fifteen pounds--the exact size he had been as a seven-month-old baby. It was then that P. T. Barnum persuaded Charley's family to allow him to exhibit their son in his museum and tour him around the world as a curiosity.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Audiobook Children's Audiobook Dr. James Carlson Library Children's Audiobook Thumb, T. S949 Available 33111006916734
Total holds: 0

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When Charles S. Stratton was born in 1838, he seemed perfect in every way. But then he stopped growing. At age four, though a happy and mischievous child, he was just over two feet tall and weighed fifteen pounds-the exact size he had been as a seven-month-old baby. It was then that P. T. Barnum persuaded Charley's family to allow him to exhibit their son in his museum and tour him around the world as a curiosity. Tom Thumb, as Barnum dubbed him, was a natural performer. He became enormously popular and wealthy, more so than any other performer before him, in large part due to the marketing genius of Barnum.

In this spirited biography-the first on its subject-George Sullivan recounts the fascinating adventures of the real Tom Thumb, and also raises challenging questions about what constitutes exploitation-both in the nineteenth century and today.

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Compact disc.

In container (17 cm.).

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Narrated by Barry Press.

When Charles S. Stratton was born in 1838, he seemed perfect in every way. But then he stopped growing. At age four, though a happy and mischievous child, he was just over two feet tall and weighed fifteen pounds--the exact size he had been as a seven-month-old baby. It was then that P. T. Barnum persuaded Charley's family to allow him to exhibit their son in his museum and tour him around the world as a curiosity.

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