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Becoming Tom Thumb

Author : Eric D. Lehman
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819573329
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Tom Thumb written by Eric D. Lehman and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “evocative and entertaining” biography of the nineteenth century circus performer who became a global phenomenon (Neil Harris, author of Humbug). When P. T. Barnum met twenty-five-inch-tall Charles Stratton at a Bridgeport, Connecticut hotel in 1843, one of the most important partnerships in entertainment history was born. With Barnum’s promotional skills and the miniature Stratton’s comedic talents, they charmed a Who’s Who of the nineteenth century, from Queen Victoria to Charles Dickens to Abraham Lincoln. Adored worldwide as “General Tom Thumb,” Stratton played to sold-out shows for almost forty years. From his days as a precocious child star to his tragic early death, Becoming Tom Thumb tells the full story of this iconic figure for the first time. It details his triumphs on the New York stage, his epic celebrity wedding, and his around-the-world tour, drawing on newly available primary sources and interviews. From the mansions of Paris to the deserts of Australia, Stratton’s unique brand of Yankee comedy not only earned him the accolades of millions of fans, it helped move little people out of the side show and into the limelight.

The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb

Author : Melanie Benjamin
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0385344163
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb written by Melanie Benjamin and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For anyone who loves the historical novels of Sara Gruen, Geraldine Brooks, and E. L. Doctorow, a barnstorming tale of an irrepressible, brawling, bawdy era and the remarkable woman who had the courage to match the unique spirit of America’s Gilded Age. She was only two feet, eight inches tall, but more than a century later, her legend reaches out to us. As a child, Mercy Lavinia “Vinnie” Warren Bump was encouraged to live a life hidden away from the public. Instead, she reached out to the immortal impresario P. T. Barnum, married the tiny superstar General Tom Thumb in the wedding of the century, and became the world’s most unexpected celebrity. Vinnie’s wedding captivated the nation, preempted coverage of the Civil War, and even ushered her into the White House. But her fame also endangered the person she prized most: her similarly sized sister, Minnie, a gentle soul unable to escape the glare of Vinnie’s spotlight. A barnstorming novel of the Gilded Age, The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb is the irresistible epic of a heroine who conquered the country with a heart as big as her dreams—and whose story will surely win over yours. Look for special features inside. Join the Circle for author chats and more. BONUS: This edition contains a timeline, an interview with Melanie Benjamin, and an excerpt from Melanie Benjamin's Alice I Have Been.

The Journey of Tom Thumb II

Author : Christine Hill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780994470508
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book The Journey of Tom Thumb II written by Christine Hill and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In one short week exploring the coast south of Botany Bay, Matthew Flinders, George Bass and their servant-boy William Martin had a series of adventures. Setting out to locate a river Henry Hacking had described, they sailed too fast and too far south; their boat was dumped by the surf on the beach at Towradgi; at Lake Illawarra's entrance they cut hair and trimmed the beards of the friendly Aboriginal people, but ended up fleeing in fear of their lives when a group of men jumped into the boat; a summer storm nearly wrecked their tiny vessel beneath the cliffs of the Royal National Park before they found shelter at Wattamolla Cove and when they finally 'discovered' the Hacking River they were surrounded by sharks!Christine Hill's series of paintings and sketches illustrating the story of Bass and Flinders' journey tells of three young men having the time of their lives in a strange land, and brings to life the famous story of Tom Thumb II for readers of all ages. She is a founding member and Fellow of the Australian Society of Marine Artists, with a special interest in wooden boats, and knows the locations well--the details are beautifully captured and the images skillfully interwoven with Flinder's own journal entries.Adults and children alike will enjoy this lively new version of the much-loved Australian tale of courage and adventure from the early colonial days of New South Wales.

The Adventures of Tom Thumb

Author : Marianna Mayer
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9781587170652
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book The Adventures of Tom Thumb written by Marianna Mayer and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tiny boy has adventures in a cow's mouth, a fish's belly, and the stomach of a giant.

Barnum

Author : Robert Wilson
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501118714
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Barnum written by Robert Wilson and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Robert Wilson’s Barnum, the first full-dress biography in twenty years, eschews clichés for a more nuanced story…It is a life for our times, and the biography Barnum deserves.” —The Wall Street Journal P.T. Barnum is the greatest showman the world has ever seen. As a creator of the Barnum & Baily Circus and a champion of wonder, joy, trickery, and “humbug,” he was the founding father of American entertainment—and as Robert Wilson argues, one of the most important figures in American history. Nearly 125 years after his death, the name P.T. Barnum still inspires wonder. Robert Wilson’s vivid new biography captures the full genius, infamy, and allure of the ebullient showman, who, from birth to death, repeatedly reinvented himself. He learned as a young man how to wow crowds, and built a fortune that placed him among the first millionaires in the United States. He also suffered tragedy, bankruptcy, and fires that destroyed his life’s work, yet willed himself to recover and succeed again. As an entertainer, Barnum courted controversy throughout his life—yet he was also a man of strong convictions, guided in his work not by a desire to deceive, but an eagerness to thrill and bring joy to his audiences. He almost certainly never uttered the infamous line, “There’s a sucker born every minute,” instead taking pride in giving crowds their money’s worth and more. Robert Wilson, editor of The American Scholar, tells a gripping story in Barnum, one that’s imbued with the same buoyant spirit as the man himself. In this “engaging, insightful, and richly researched new biography” (New York Journal of Books), Wilson adeptly makes the case for P.T. Barnum’s place among the icons of American history, as a figure who represented, and indeed created, a distinctly American sense of optimism, industriousness, humor, and relentless energy.

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Author : Tom Robbins
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553897896
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (538 download)

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Download or read book Even Cowgirls Get the Blues written by Tom Robbins and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2003-06-17 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is one of those special novels—a piece of working magic, warm, funny, and sane.”—Thomas Pynchon The whooping crane rustlers are girls. Young girls. Cowgirls, as a matter of fact, all “bursting with dimples and hormones”—and the FBI has never seen anything quite like them. Yet their rebellion at the Rubber Rose Ranch is almost overshadowed by the arrival of the legendary Sissy Hankshaw, a white-trash goddess literally born to hitchhike, and the freest female of them all. Freedom, its prizes and its prices, is a major theme of Tom Robbins’s classic tale of eccentric adventure. As his robust characters attempt to turn the tables on fate, the reader is drawn along on a tragicomic joyride across the badlands of sexuality, wild rivers of language, and the frontiers of the mind.

We Are All His Creatures: Tales of P. T. Barnum, the Greatest Showman

Author : Deborah Noyes
Publisher : Candlewick
ISBN 13 : 0763659819
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book We Are All His Creatures: Tales of P. T. Barnum, the Greatest Showman written by Deborah Noyes and published by Candlewick. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of interwoven fictionalized stories, Deborah Noyes gives voice to the marginalized women in P. T. Barnum’s family — and the talented entertainers he built his entertainment empire on. Much has been written about P. T. Barnum — legendary showman, entrepreneur, marketing genius, and one of the most famous nineteenth-century personalities. For those who lived in Barnum’s shadow, however, life was complex. P. T. Barnum’s two families — his family at home, including his two wives and his daughters, and his family at work, including Little People, a giantess, an opera singer, and many sideshow entertainers — suffered greatly from his cruelty and exploitation. Yet, at the same time, some of his performers, such as General Tom Thumb (Charles Stratton), became wealthy celebrities who were admired and feted by presidents and royalty. In this collection of interlinked stories illustrated with archival photographs, Deborah Noyes digs deep into what is known about the people in Barnum’s orbit and imagines their personal lives, putting front and center the complicated joy and pain of what it meant to be one of Barnum’s “creatures.”

Green Thumb

Author : Tom Cardamone
Publisher : Lethe Press
ISBN 13 : 159021367X
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Green Thumb written by Tom Cardamone and published by Lethe Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strange mutations occured in the Florida Keys after the Red War. Now after living alone for decades because he misunderstands time, Leaf meets another like, yet unlike himself and begins a startling journey.

Afoot in Connecticut

Author : Eric D. Lehman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781938846076
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Afoot in Connecticut written by Eric D. Lehman and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Afoot in Connecticut, is a love letter to this often overlooked region of America, an inspirational story that will have you taking to the trails and the greenways, along the beaches and mountaintops, and into a land full of transformation, of beauty, and of strength.

My Family and Other Hazards

Author : June Melby
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0805098313
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book My Family and Other Hazards written by June Melby and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A funny, heartwarming memoir about saying goodbye to your childhood home, in this case a quirky, one-of-a-kind, family-run miniature golf course in the woods of Wisconsin When June Melby was ten years old, her parents decided on a whim to buy the miniature golf course in the small Wisconsin town where they vacationed every summer. Without any business experience or outside employees, the family sets out to open Tom Thumb Miniature Golf to the public. Naturally, there are bumps along the way. In My Family and Other Hazards, Melby recreates all the squabbling, confusion, and ultimately triumph, of one family's quest to build something together, and brings to life the joys of one of America's favorite pastimes. In sharp, funny prose, we get the hazards that taunted players at each hole, and the dedication and hard work that went into each one's creation. All the familiar delights of summer are here—snowcones and popcorn and long days spent with people you love. Melby's relationship with the course is love-hate from the beginning, given the summer's freedom it robs her of, but when her parents decide to sell the course years later, her panicked reaction surprises even her. Now an adult living in Hollywood, having flown the Midwest long ago, she flies back to the course to help run it before the sale goes through, wondering if she should try to stop it. As the clock ticks, she reflects on what the course meant to her both as a child and an adult, the simpler era that it represents, and the particular pains of losing your childhood home, even years after you've left it.

Tom Thumb and the Football Team

Author : Pippa Goodhart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780199195985
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (959 download)

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Download or read book Tom Thumb and the Football Team written by Pippa Goodhart and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First class fiction at an appropriate interest level, the books in TreeTops More All Stars Pack 2A provide: BLQuality books by top authors and illustrators to challenge and motivate your children BLThe right level of content, at an appropriate interest level for Year 1 children BLCareful text levelling to gradually build stamina Also available are flexible Teaching Notes (ISBN 0-19-919608-7) to provide support for much more than guided reading. The other titles in TreeTops More All Stars Pack 2A are: Badcats, Cleaner Genie, Beastly Basil, Town Dog, and Nelly the Monster-Sitter. They are available in a Pack of six (ISBN 0-19-919601-X) and a Class Pack (ISBN 0-19-919600-1), containing 6 of each title.

Be a Good Human

Author : Tom Giaquinto
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781542972710
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (727 download)

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Download or read book Be a Good Human written by Tom Giaquinto and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traits. Habits. Skills. Ideas. Strategies. Here is a complete character-building programme that can help you lead a happy and successful life! Ever wondered why some people are more popular than others? Or more respected and well liked? Ever wondered what you can do to make yourself more like them? Tom Giaquinto believes that the secret lies in two things: your attitude and, more importantly, in developing a daily awareness that will help you make the correct choices. This is what will actually help you in becoming the best human being you can possibly be. Containing inspirational quotes, day-to-day examples and loads of fun-facts for teenagers, young adults and grown-ups alike; this book is a must have for those who usually fight a little shy of self-help books in todays instant informa-tion age! This book gives you invaluable tips on matters like: how to be kind to people, how to be happy, how to stay positive, how to help others, how to make lots of friends among others. Each chapter sums up the topic by giving you 'Things To Think About'.

The Best of Kʹtonton

Author : Sadie Rose Weilerstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best of Kʹtonton written by Sadie Rose Weilerstein and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventures of a thumb-sized boy born into a Jewish family.

The Golden Goose

Author : Leonard Leslie Brooke
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019565469
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (654 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Goose written by Leonard Leslie Brooke and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This charming collection of fairy tales features many of the classic stories that have captivated children for generations. With delightful illustrations and engaging prose, The Golden Goose is a book that will be treasured by families for years to come. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Born Different

Author : Fredrick Drimmer
Publisher : Skylark
ISBN 13 : 9780553158977
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (589 download)

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Download or read book Born Different written by Fredrick Drimmer and published by Skylark. This book was released on 1991-05 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains brief biographies of Tom Thumb; Robert Wadlow, a giant; Chang and Eng, Siamese twins; Joseph Merrick, Julia Pastrana, and Herrmann Unthan.

The Man who Fell in Love with the Moon

Author : Tom Spanbauer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780802136633
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book The Man who Fell in Love with the Moon written by Tom Spanbauer and published by . This book was released on 2000-01 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The plot twists around the questions of humanity in a comic contemporary novel that portrays the trials of Shed, a half-breed, bisexual boy who works at a Victorian whorehouse in the old West.

The History of Tom Thumb and Other Stories

Author : Anonymous
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781781390030
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The History of Tom Thumb and Other Stories written by Anonymous and published by . This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many beautiful children's picture books were produced in the nineteenth century, often by anonymous authors and artists. Here we've put together a new collection from a variety of sources, lavishly illustrated with black-and-white drawings. The tales included are The History of Tom Thumb, The Old Woman and her Pig, The Story of Jack and the Giants, The Cat and the Mouse and Princess Belle-Etoile.