This page refers to the fictional character. For the potato variety, see Potato. Fingerling (Pinkeltje in Dutch) is a fictional character who appears in 29 books by Dutch author Dick Laan (1894-1973) and one book from the movie where stories were rewritten by Harrie Geelen. Fingerling is a Tom Thumb-sized gnome the size of a pinky (in fact, the English word pinky is from Dutch pink) with a stereotypical red hat and white beard, and has enormous adventures in a collection of children's stories th… (More on Fingerling)