Tom Thumb 🤏

Sleep Tight Stories - Bedtime Stories for Kids

Sleep Tight Media

Stories For Kids, Kids & Family

4.3 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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👋 Hello friends! Looking for more bedtime stories per week? Subscribe to Sleep Tight Premium. With Sleep Tight Premium you can listen to 4 interruption-free stories per week, an extensive selection of sleep sounds, guided meditations, and music for sleep. Visit sleeptightpremium.com and start your free trial. Thank you. Tom Thumb is a fairy tale about a woodsman and his wife who have no children and wish for one, even if they are as small as the wife’s thumb. They are blessed with a son and name him Tom Thumb. He helps out as much as he can and one day persuades his father to see him for some gold. He tells his father to take the gold and he will find a way to get back to them. He has a great adventure and finally ends up at home. Sleep Tight!, Sheryl & Clark ❤️👂📖 👉 Hello again friends! Looking for ways to support the show? Sign-up to our premium feed and receive 4+ interruption-free stories and more a week. 🎈Shop for Sleep Tight Stories merch.! ❤️ We're social! Let's connect on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter ❤️ We would love to hear from you, reach out to us via our website. While there you can find other ways to support the show and find the words to most of our stories. About Sleep Tight Stories Sleep Tight Stories brings you new and captivating bedtime stories every week. The stories range from retellings of fairy tales, folk stories, classic Canadian works, and original stories written by guest authors. Each story is safe for kids of all ages.

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0:00.0	Hello friends, and welcome to Sleep Tight Stories.
0:14.0	A short message for grown-ups, looking for more calming entertainment at sleep time?
0:20.0	Subscribe to Sleep Tight Premium and get access to our complete back catalog of interruption-free bedtime stories.
0:29.0	Guided meditations, sleep sounds, and sleep music.
0:34.0	And special shout-outs for the kids, visit sleeptightpremium.com to begin your free trial.
0:41.0	A link can be found in our show notes.
0:44.0	Thank you.
0:47.0	This episode is the first of several that will include classic fairy tales.
1:02.0	This fairy tale is called Tom Thumb.
1:07.0	There is a couple who wish for a child more than anything,
1:13.0	and are lucky to have a son who is no bigger than their thumb.
1:20.0	They are very happy, and Tom helps them a great deal.
1:26.0	One day, two men offer money to buy Tom, and he sets off on an adventure.
1:38.0	Tom Thumb.
1:44.0	A poor woodman sat in his cottage one night, smoking his pipe by the fireside.
1:52.0	While his wife sat by his side spinning.
1:59.0	How lonely it is, wife, he said, as he puffed out a long curl of smoke.
2:06.0	For you and me to sit here by ourselves without any children to play about and amuse us.
2:15.0	While other people seem so happy and marry with their children.
2:25.0	What you say is very true, said the wife, sighing and turning round her wheel.
2:32.0	How happy should I be if I had but one child?
2:38.0	If it were ever so small, nay, if it were no bigger than my thumb,
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