Tales from Beatrix Potter

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Warne, 1986 - Juvenile Fiction - 124 pages
The tailor of Gloucester: When the tailor becomes sick and cannot finish the waistcoat for the Mayor, the mice finish it for him. The tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle: Lucie visits the laundry of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, a hedgehog, and finds her lost handkerchiefs. The tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck: Relates how the barnyard collie and pups rescue Jemima Puddle-Duck from the fox's cooking pot. The tale of the Flopsy Bunnies: When the Flopsy Bunnies venture over to Mr. McGregor's garbage heap to find dinner, trouble ensues when they fall asleep in the warm sun after their meal.

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Alack barefoot BEATRIX POTTER Benjamin Bunny button-holes cherry-coloured coat cherry-coloured twist Christmas Day clothes Cock Robin coloured curiously at Jemima dilly dresser eggs embroidered eyes went twinkle foxy gentleman funny little gentleman with sandy hatch Hey diddle dinketty houses in Gloucester jam pot Jemima Puddle-duck kitchen lappets last fourpence lettuces little brown mice little mice little mouse voices little noises little rabbits Little-town looked Lucie's Mayor of Gloucester McGregor Miaw nest night nose went sniffle number of little Nursery Rhymes omelette onions opened the door penn'orth Peter Rabbit pinny please'm pocket-handkerchiefs pocket-handkin poor old tailor rotten vegetable marrows rubbish heap sack sandy whiskers satin lay cut satin waistcoat silver safety-pin Simpkin sitting six leetle rabbits sleep sniffed snippets snow soporific stile stitches tacles Tailor of Gloucester Tale of Jemima tea-cup tea-pot There's throstles and robins Tiggy-winkle tip tap tip Tittlemouse wainscot washing Westgate Street window youngest Flopsy Bunny

About the author (1986)

(Helen) Beatrix Potter, 1866 - 1943 (Helen) Beatrix Potter was born in 1866 in London where she was privately educated. During most of her adult life, she lived in a farm cottage in Sawrey, Westmoreland County. She was unsuccessful in trying to publish her serious botanical work, watercolor studies of fungi, but she wrote and privately published "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" for an invalid child in 1900. This story became a children's classic throughout the world. Other animal characters created by her include, Benjamin Bunny, Jemima Puddle-Duck, and Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle. Her tales are illustrated by her own hand in delicate and detailed watercolor pictures depicting her characters. Potter's other works include "The Tailor of Gloucester" published in 1902 and "The Tale of Tom Kitten" published in 1907. At her death in 1943, she bequeathed her property in Sawrey to the National Trust, which also maintains her home as a museum.

Bibliographic information

TitleTales from Beatrix Potter
Peter Rabbit Series
The original and authorized editions by Beatrix Potter
AuthorBeatrix Potter
Illustrated byBeatrix Potter
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherWarne, 1986
ISBN0723239711, 9780723239710
Length124 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Juvenile Fiction / Animals / General
Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Rabbits
Juvenile Fiction / Classics
  
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