The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes

by Beatrix Potter

Overview

An innocent squirrel accused of stealing nuts is forced down a hole in a tree, where he meets a friendly chipmunk.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789357911221
Publisher:	Alpha Editions
Publication date:	09/18/2023
Pages:	28
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.07(d)
Age Range:	13 - 18 Years

About the Author

Beatrix Potter loved the countryside and spent much of her childhood drawing and studying animals. The Tale of Peter Rabbit¸ published in 1902, was her first book, expanded from an illustrated letter she had sent to a young friend. Beatrix Potter went on to publish more than 20 tales and collections of rhymes.

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Once upon a time there was a little fat comfortable grey squirrel, called Timmy Tiptoes. He had a nest thatched with leaves in the top of a tall tree; and he had a little squirrel wife called Goody.

Timmy Tiptoes sat out, enjoying the breeze; he whisked his tail and chuckled - "Little wife Goody, the nuts are ripe; we must lay up a store for winter and spring."

(Continues…)

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