Grimm Brothers' Tom Thumb became well known as a witty character, some sort of prince of miniatures or elf taking advantage of his own size - not bigger than his father's thumb - to achieve wealthiness and travel around the world for free, tricking nature inside wolves or cows' stomachs and snail shells, riding dormouse backs, orchestrating butterflies on the meadows.
This Tom Thumb version is a hymn to cleverness and childhood dreams - adventuresome, he's a little fellow who remained just the same size as when he was born, though always knowing pretty well what he was about.
Tom Hickathrift was eight feet high at age ten and his hand resembled a shoulder of mutton. As an adult, he had more strenght than twenty men, would make anyone fall down with a single blow. An hero from the 18th century British folklore, Tom fought and killed the club giant, cut off his head and went into his cave, where he found great treasures stored.
But can the world's readers believe there is no Thumb inside the giant nor Hickathrift in a dwarf's mind?
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