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Tom Thumb

Sunday School Activity Sheet: Tom Thumb

tags: tom thumb, life, fetus, baby, pregnancy, pregnant

handout id: 3652
short name: Tom Thumb
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We have all heard stories of Tom Thumb and his wonderful adventures.
Tom Thumb was so small that people often didn't even notice him.
He was so small that he could sit in a walnut shell or hid in his playmates' pocket.
Once he fell into his mother's pudding bowl and was nearly cooked with the pudding.
He once god swallowed up in one mouthful by a cow. When his father went ploughing, Tom sheltered in a horse's ear.
When Tom was trying to scare crows away from his father's wheat, a black raven carried him away in her beak.
He was chased by a giant and escaped by hiding in a mousehole.
Then he was swallowed by a fish. The fish was caught as a present for King Arthur's dinner.
When the fish was opened, Tom was found inside. The king was pleased with Tom that he made him a favourite member of his court.
The adventures of Tom Thumb are one of the oldest of English fairy tales. The earliest story that has been found was printed 360 years ago, and Tom has remained a favourite character ever since.
Similar tales of thumb-size person have been told in many other countries, too.
The adventure of Tom Thumb are not true. The are just stories.
Bt a even more interesting Tom Thumb does exist -- not the one of the fairy tales, but the tiny human being each one of us was when we were very young.
Dr. Jerome Lejeune, a Frenchman who is a professor at the University of Paris, believes this is why the stories of Tom Thumb came to be written.
When Dr. Lejeune visited New Zealand a few years ago, he told a group of children his true tale of Tom Thumb.
Just two months after the life of each one of us began, he said, we were all smaller than a man's thumb.
We could have sat in a walnut shell, or stretched out comfortably in the palm of a grown-up's hand.
Yet all the parts of our body were in place - hands, feet, head, brain and so on.
If someone with a magnifying glass had looked at our hands, they could have seen our tiny finger prints.
We were like an astronaut in a space capsule, with a lifeline to bring us our food.
As Dr. Lejeune said, all of the children in the world - all of the grown-ups they have turned into - were once Tom Thumbs inside their mothers.
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