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From the wonderful stories from "The Peter Rabbit Books" by Beatrix Potter 

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Beatrix Potter was born in South Kensington, London in 1866. She had little opportunity to mix with other children. Even Potter's younger brother, Bertram, was rarely at home; he was sent to boarding school, leaving Beatrix alone with her pet animals. She had frogs and newts and even a pet bat. She also had two rabbits -- the first was Benjamin, whom she described as "an impudent, cheeky little thing", while the second was Peter, whom she took everywhere with her, even on the occasional outings, on a little lead. 

Potter would watch these animals for hours on end, sketching them. Gradually the sketches became better and better and are included in this video.


 

 

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The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies

The Tale of Benjamin Bunny

When Benjamin Bunny and his children, the “Flopsy Bunnies,” go to Mr. McGregor’s rubbish heap, they are pleasantly surprised to find it filled with overgrown lettuces. They eat their fill and then fall asleep. When they are found by Mr. McGregor and put in a bag, Thomasina Tittlemouse comes to their rescue. The story deals with Benjamin and his cousin Peter Rabbit going to Mr. McGregor's garden, while he is away, to find the clothes Peter lost in "The Tale of Peter Rabbit."

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck

Peter Rabbit and his three sisters (Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail) live with their mother under the roots of a large fir tree. Peter, who is an adventurous young bunny, invades the garden of Mr. McGregor.

Jemima Puddle-Duck wants to hatch her own eggs, but everyone knows she is not a very good "sitter." So Jemima sets off to find a place to hatch her eggs in solitude. She meets a "very nice gentleman" (a fox) who offers to assist. But, he really has other plans for Jemima. Jemima is rescued by her friend, Kep, a dog who lives on the same farm. Eventually, Jemima does, indeed, hatch her own eggs.

The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher

The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle

The story of a frog who decides to go fishing for minnows for supper. After several misadventures, including being swallowed by a big trout and then spat out again, he gives up and has a dinner of roasted grasshopper with ladybird sauce and salad with his friends, Sir Isaac Newton (a newt), and Alderman Ptolemy Tortoise.

A little girl called Lucie loses her handkerchiefs and goes on a search for them. She sees some white cloths on the grass high up a hill and climbs up to discover a little hedgehog washerwoman, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, with her handkerchiefs freshly laundered, along with many other interesting articles such as stockings for a hen.

The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse

The Tailor of Gloucester

The story of a wood-mouse named Mrs. Tittlemouse and her efforts to keep her house in order despite numerous unwanted visitors, particularly Mr. Jackson, a sloppy toad.

The story of a poor tailor, his cat, and the mice that live in his shop. He has many scraps of cloth and ribbons left over that are too small for any practical use. The mice take these and make fine clothes for themselves. The tailor sends his cat Simpkin to buy food and a twist of cherry-coloured silk for a coat the mayor has commissioned for his wedding, which will take place on Christmas morning. While the cat is gone, he frees the mice from teacups where Simpkin has imprisoned them. When Simpkin returns and finds his mice gone, he hides the twist in anger. When the tailor falls ill, the mice save the day by completing the coat. (One buttonhole remains incomplete because the mice run out of twist).

The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin

The Tale of Tom Kitten

Squirrel Nutkin goes along with a group of squirrels to Owl Island to gather nuts. However, while all the other squirrels are busy collecting nuts, Nutkin is often playing or making mischief. This occurs over the course of six days. Each time they arrive, the other squirrels present the island's resident owl, Old Brown, with gifts to earn his permission to gather nuts. Each time as well, Nutkin dances and taunts the owl with sing-song riddles. Eventually, Nutkin annoys Old Brown too many times. The owl captures Nutkin and tries to skin him alive. Nutkin escapes, but not without losing most of his tail.

The story of three little kittens who get into mischief. Their mother (Tabitha Twitchit) grooms and dresses them up for company she is having, then sends them out with the admonishment that they not get dirty. They not only get dirty but lose their clothes to some passing ducks. When they return, she hides them upstairs and tells her company that they are ill.

The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes

The Tale of Two Bad Mice

Timmy Tiptoes, a squirrel, and his wife Goody decide to gather nuts to lay up for the winter and spring. When the tree stumps they were using to store their nuts in are full, they begin to use a woodpecker’s tree hole. Meanwhile, a squirrel named Silvertail digs up another squirrel’s nuts, resulting in a fight and causing a spate of digging by the other squirrels. A flock of birds flies by, one of them singing about digging up nuts. The squirrels follow this bird to where Timmy and Goody are gathering nuts, where it continues to sing its song. When they hear the birdsong, the squirrels attack Timmy and chase him. Capturing him, they take him to the tree hole he had used to store his nuts in and force him into it, injuring him. They intend to imprison him until he confesses. Goody meanwhile returns home, but as Timmy does not return, she goes out to look for him.

"The Tale of Two Bad Mice" is about the exploits of two mice named Tom Thumb and Hunca Munca who break into a dollhouse, while its occupants are out for a walk. The two mice wreack havoc, especially Tom Thumb, smashing plaster plates of pretend food, upending dishes and shredding feather beds, before finally running back to their hole with a fair number of things from the house. In response the little girl who owns the dollhouse buys a policeman doll, while the nurse buys a mousetrap. In repentance for causing so much trouble, Tom Thumb pays for all his breakages, and Hunka Munka goes, each morning, into the dollhouse to clean it.


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