Beatrix Potter
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Publisher
Frederick Warne & Co., Inc.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter. It was first published by Frederick Warne & Co. in July 1908. Potter composed the book at Hill Top, a working farm in the Lake District she bought in 1905. Following the purchase, her works began to focus on country and village life, incorporating large casts of animal characters and sinister villains. Jemima Puddle-Duck was the first of her books set wholly...
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Project Gutenberg
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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A collection of tales by Beatrix Potter (1866 – 1943), was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist; she was best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as The Tale of Peter Rabbit. (Source: Wikipedia)
Author
Publisher
Frederick Warne & Co., Inc.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
(Helen) Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) was an English author and illustrator, botanist, and conservationist, born in Kensington, London best known for her children's books, which featured animal characters such as Peter Rabbit. Educated at home by a succession of governesses, she had little opportunity to mix with other children. Potter had frogs and newts, and even a pet bat. The basis of her many projects and stories were the small animals that she...
Author
Publisher
Frederick Warne & Co.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The Tale of Peter Rabbit is a British children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter that follows mischievous and disobedient young Peter Rabbit as he is chased about the garden of Mr. McGregor. He escapes and returns home to his mother, who puts him to bed after dosing him with tea. The tale was written for five-year-old Noel Moore, son of Potter's former governess Annie Carter Moore, in 1893. It was revised and privately printed by Potter...
Author
Publisher
FREDERICK WARNE
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The children's book author Beatrix Potter grew up summering in the English Lakes and settled there as an adult, in the village of Sawrey. Potter purchased numerous properties and farms, which she left to the National Trust upon her death, and is credited with preserving much of the land that now comprises the Lake District National Park. Many of her stories reference the local landscape, including "The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin," in which the background...
Author
Publisher
Frederick Warne & Co.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Ginger, a yellow tomcat, and Pickles, a terrier, are partners in operating a village shop that offers a variety of goods including red spotty handkerchiefs, "sugar, snuff, and goloshes". Ginger inspires fear in their mouse customers and Pickles their rabbit customers. Ginger's mouth waters as the mice leave the shop with their parcels. However, the pair have a poor grasp of business, extending unlimited credit to absolutely anyone. Consequently no...
Author
Publisher
FREDERICK WARNE & Co.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, and first published by Frederick Warne & Co. in July 1909. After two full-length tales about rabbits, Potter had grown weary of the subject and was reluctant to write another. She realized however that children most enjoyed her rabbit stories and pictures, and so reached back to characters and plot elements from The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902) and The Tale...
Author
Publisher
FREDERICK WARNE
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan (originally, The Pie and the Patty-Pan) is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, and published by Frederick Warne & Co. in October 1905. It tells of a cat called Ribby and a tea party she holds for a dog called Duchess. Complications arise when Duchess tries to replace Ribby's mouse pie with her own veal and ham pie, and then believes she has swallowed a small tin pastry form called a patty-pan....
Author
Publisher
FREDERICK WARNE
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
(Helen) Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) was an English author and illustrator, botanist, and conservationist, born in Kensington, London best known for her children's books, which featured animal characters such as Peter Rabbit. Educated at home by a succession of governesses, she had little opportunity to mix with other children. Potter had frogs and newts, and even a pet bat. The basis of her many projects and stories were the small animals that she...
Author
Publisher
FREDERICK WARNE
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Tom Kitten is a young cat who lives with his mother, Mrs. Tabitha Twitchit, and sisters, Moppet and Mittens, in a house overrun with rats. Her children being an unruly bunch, Mrs. Twitchit puts Moppet and Mittens in a cupboard in order to keep them under control, but Tom Kitten, not wanting to be put in a cupboard, escapes up the chimney. As he makes his way to the top of the house, he comes across a crack in the wall and, squeezing through it, finds...
Author
Publisher
Frederick Warne & Co.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
(Helen) Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) was an English author and illustrator, botanist, and conservationist, born in Kensington, London best known for her children's books, which featured animal characters such as Peter Rabbit. Educated at home by a succession of governesses, she had little opportunity to mix with other children. Potter had frogs and newts, and even a pet bat. The basis of her many projects and stories were the small animals that she...
Author
Publisher
FREDERICK WARNE & CO, INC
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The Tailor of Gloucester is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, privately printed by the author in 1902, and published in a trade edition by Frederick Warne & Co. in October 1903. The story is about a tailor whose work on a waistcoat is finished by the grateful mice he rescues from his cat and was based on a real world incident involving a tailor and his assistants. For years, Potter declared that of all her books it was her...
Author
Publisher
FREDERICK WARNE
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
(Helen) Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) was an English author and illustrator, botanist, and conservationist, born in Kensington, London best known for her children's books, which featured animal characters such as Peter Rabbit. Educated at home by a succession of governesses, she had little opportunity to mix with other children. Potter had frogs and newts, and even a pet bat. The basis of her many projects and stories were the small animals that she...
Author
Publisher
FREDERICK WARNE
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
(Helen) Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) was an English author and illustrator, botanist, and conservationist, born in Kensington, London best known for her children's books, which featured animal characters such as Peter Rabbit. Educated at home by a succession of governesses, she had little opportunity to mix with other children. Potter had frogs and newts, and even a pet bat. The basis of her many projects and stories were the small animals that she...
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories by Beatrix Potter (1866 – 1943), an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist; she was best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as The Tale of Peter Rabbit. (Source: Wikipedia)
Author
Publisher
Frederick Warne & Co.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
When Mr. McGregor and his wife leave home in their gig, Benjamin Bunny and his cousin Peter Rabbit venture into Mr. McGregor's garden to retrieve the clothes Peter lost there in The Tale of Peter Rabbit. They find the blue jacket and brown shoes on a scarecrow, but Peter is apprehensive about lingering in the garden because of his previous experience. Benjamin delays their departure by gathering onions, which he wraps in Peter's handkerchief, hoping...
Author
Publisher
FREDERICK WARNE & CO., INC.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The tale is about a badger called Tommy Brock and his arch enemy Mr. Tod, a fox. Brock kidnaps the children of Benjamin Bunny and his wife Flopsy, intending to eat them, and hides them in an oven in the home of Mr. Tod. Benjamin and his cousin Peter Rabbit have followed Tommy Brock in an attempt to rescue the babies. When Mr. Tod finds Brock asleep in his bed, he determines to get him out of the house. His initial attempt fails, and the two eventually...
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English
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Beatrix Potter (1866 - 1943) was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist. Her Children's stories are loved all around the world.
Born into an upper-middle-class household, Potter was educated by governesses and grew up isolated from other children. She had numerous pets and spent holidays in Scotland and the Lake District, developing a love of landscape, flora and fauna, all of which she closely observed and painted....
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English
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A collection of eight classic Beatrix Potter tales adapted by Melissa Chantaj.
Listen along to the wild adventures of Beatrix Potter's whimsical creatures including:
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
The Tale of Benjamin Bunny
The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies
The Tale of Mr. Tod
The Tale of Ginger and Pickles
The Story of Miss Moppet
The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher
The Tale of Two Bad Mice