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The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin: A Sticker Story Book
Story Book with Stickers
20 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2008
About the author
Beatrix Potter
2,930 books2,021 followersHelen Beatrix Potter was an English author, illustrator, mycologist, and conservationist who is best known for her children's books, which featured animal characters such as Peter Rabbit.
Born into a wealthy household, Potter was educated by governesses and grew up isolated from other children. She had numerous pets, and through holidays in Scotland and the Lake District, developed a love of landscape, flora, and fauna, all of which she closely observed and painted. Because she was a woman, her parents discouraged intellectual development, but her study and paintings of fungi led her to be widely respected in the field of mycology.
In her thirties, Potter published the highly successful children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit and became secretly engaged to her publisher, Norman Warne, causing a breach with her parents, who disapproved of his social status. Warne died before the wedding.
Potter eventually published 24 children's books, the most recent being The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots (2016), and having become financially independent of her parents, was able to buy a farm in the Lake District, which she extended with other purchases over time.
In her forties, she married a local solicitor, William Heelis. She became a sheep breeder and farmer while continuing to write and illustrate children's books. Potter died in 1943 and left almost all of her property to The National Trust in order to preserve the beauty of the Lake District as she had known it, protecting it from developers.
Potter's books continue to sell well throughout the world, in multiple languages. Her stories have been retold in various formats, including a ballet, films, and in animation.
Born into a wealthy household, Potter was educated by governesses and grew up isolated from other children. She had numerous pets, and through holidays in Scotland and the Lake District, developed a love of landscape, flora, and fauna, all of which she closely observed and painted. Because she was a woman, her parents discouraged intellectual development, but her study and paintings of fungi led her to be widely respected in the field of mycology.
In her thirties, Potter published the highly successful children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit and became secretly engaged to her publisher, Norman Warne, causing a breach with her parents, who disapproved of his social status. Warne died before the wedding.
Potter eventually published 24 children's books, the most recent being The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots (2016), and having become financially independent of her parents, was able to buy a farm in the Lake District, which she extended with other purchases over time.
In her forties, she married a local solicitor, William Heelis. She became a sheep breeder and farmer while continuing to write and illustrate children's books. Potter died in 1943 and left almost all of her property to The National Trust in order to preserve the beauty of the Lake District as she had known it, protecting it from developers.
Potter's books continue to sell well throughout the world, in multiple languages. Her stories have been retold in various formats, including a ballet, films, and in animation.
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June 11, 2022
The tiny books by the English botanist and watercolourist Beatrix Potter are enormously successful, and have been ever since she first created Peter Rabbit in 1901. Here is my review of that classic masterpiece. LINK HERE.
Altogether there are 23 such tales. Children and adults alike love the anthropomorphised woodland creatures, countryside animals and pets. However some of the tales now mention objects and occasions which no modern child would recognise without a bit of explanation. It has to be said that some stories show their age, and are perhaps better appreciated by adults, who have fond memories of them.
The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin is one such odd little tale. In a way it is the timeless tale of a young scallywag, whose adventures are retold through many cultures, for instance as Brer Rabbit, or Anansi the spider-man. In this case Squirrel Nutkin is a bold and cheeky young squirrel, who refuses to be suitably respectful to an old owl. He teases the owl mercilessly, and seems to get away with it time after time. Finally though, .
This is a large scale format of the book, complete with all the original illustrations, one at the top of each page of text, and emblems in the top two corners of the page, plus one centre bottom. There are also two pages of stickers; one at the beginning of the book, and one at the end. Each of the 26 stickers is a detail taken from an illustration in the story, and there is plenty of white space in the book to attach them, although there are no specific set places.
I feel this was an odd story to choose to make into The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin: A Sticker Story Book, because a lot of the text comprises riddles set by Squirrel Nutkin, none of which would make any sense at all to the age range it was written for (and little sense to us). However, Squirrel Nutkin has become a sort of folk hero, much as Peter Rabbit has, so it will have appeal.
Even better, Beatrix Potter so loved the Lake District countryside where she lived, that she donated all her considerable tracts of land there to the “National Trust”, who now maintain it for everyone to enjoy. She also generously willed all her property, and the ongoing royalties from her works, to them: a gift which keeps giving.
Altogether there are 23 such tales. Children and adults alike love the anthropomorphised woodland creatures, countryside animals and pets. However some of the tales now mention objects and occasions which no modern child would recognise without a bit of explanation. It has to be said that some stories show their age, and are perhaps better appreciated by adults, who have fond memories of them.
The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin is one such odd little tale. In a way it is the timeless tale of a young scallywag, whose adventures are retold through many cultures, for instance as Brer Rabbit, or Anansi the spider-man. In this case Squirrel Nutkin is a bold and cheeky young squirrel, who refuses to be suitably respectful to an old owl. He teases the owl mercilessly, and seems to get away with it time after time. Finally though, .
This is a large scale format of the book, complete with all the original illustrations, one at the top of each page of text, and emblems in the top two corners of the page, plus one centre bottom. There are also two pages of stickers; one at the beginning of the book, and one at the end. Each of the 26 stickers is a detail taken from an illustration in the story, and there is plenty of white space in the book to attach them, although there are no specific set places.
I feel this was an odd story to choose to make into The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin: A Sticker Story Book, because a lot of the text comprises riddles set by Squirrel Nutkin, none of which would make any sense at all to the age range it was written for (and little sense to us). However, Squirrel Nutkin has become a sort of folk hero, much as Peter Rabbit has, so it will have appeal.
Even better, Beatrix Potter so loved the Lake District countryside where she lived, that she donated all her considerable tracts of land there to the “National Trust”, who now maintain it for everyone to enjoy. She also generously willed all her property, and the ongoing royalties from her works, to them: a gift which keeps giving.
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