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The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle (Potter 23 Tales)

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I've loved this book since I first read it as an (giggle) adult. It's one of my favorites for bedtime stories. Mrs. Tiggy Winkle is one of Beatrix Potter's creations and she knows Peter Rabbit. Can you beat that? After you've read this version, find one of the ones with the gorgeous pictures to show your children. Or--just read yourself. It's a step into an older, more secure world.

Sandy S.

P.S. It's short enough to read for a bedtime story without moving your bedtime back.

"The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle" is another perfectly splendid story by Beatrix Potter. This time the author introduces a human character to the world of animals. A little girl, Lucie, has a bad habit of losing her pocket-handkerchiefs. On this particular day she has lost three, as well as a pinny. She goes searching for them in the hills where she finds a door going straight into the hill. When she opens it she discovers a clean kitchen and a peculiar little person. Her name is Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and she is a washer-woman. Lucie's missing hankies and pinny are being washed and ironed by her. I love the way Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle's little black nose goes sniffle, sniffle, snuffle, and her eyes go twinkle, twinkle. Also, the way she always answers questions with "if you please'm". The illustrations are nice and children will enjoy Ms. Potter's beautiful narrative and finding out Mrs Tiggy-Winkle's true identity.

Lucy is always misplacing her things. No matter how good she tries to be, she still loses her hankies and other things. One day, she decided to go on a hunt for her hankies. Along the way, she asks creatures if they've seen her handerchief. And she meets Mrs. TIggy-Winkle.

It is a charming story with beautiful illustrations. My boys really enjoy looking at the pictures of this book! I enjoy reading this one to them! When they are older, this book will be perfect for their beginner's lessons. The pictures are charming and the story itself is lovely.

10-29-03

Of course we are all familiar with Beatrix Potter`s wonderful stories but this one was new to me. My five year old loved it even though I had to explain a few of the Brittish words to him. The story can be easily read in one sitting being only 54 lines long (Kindle speak). The tranfer to ebook was okay with only a couple concerns. This review was written on the Kindle DX.

Despite what is shown on the "Look Inside" feature, the illustrations inside this edition are BLURRY, black & white copies of the originals. Very disappointing! This amounts to false advertising. I'm returning it.

This well constructed story flows smoothly in such a way that can easily tickle your curiosity. The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-winkle is based upon a young girl's quest to find her 3 lost "pocket-handkins." Along the way she meets the hospitable Mrs. Tiggy-winkle whose odd qualities captivate the girl's curiosity. In the end, Mrs. Tiggy-winkle's identity as a hedgehog is surprisingly uncovered.

Innocent and simple, this tale is a unique addition not only to the Beatrix Potter collection, but also to this type of genre in children's tales.

Darien Summers, author of The Mischievous Hare, a children's book. The Mischievous Hare

Lucy is a human character introduced to the Peter Rabbit series, has a bad habit of losing her pocket-handkerchiefs and this time she lost 3. She search for it high and low but couldn't find them anywhere. But what she found something else in the hills while searching and it is a door going straight into the hill.

There, she meets an intriguing character with "hairpins" sticking out of her back who calls herself Mrs Tiggy-Winkle, who happens to be a washerwomen for all of the other animals. Turned out her missing hankies and pinny are being wash by Mrs Tiggy-Winkle.

This is an interesting book and my favorite part is the ever so questions answered with "it you please'em". Beautiful colourful illustration to enjoy. Weird storyline though but it's an interesting non the less. Kids owuld enjoy this with an awe. Not a keeper but it's a good read.

When Beatrix Potter created her books originally, her intention was to offer children beautiful books in a size comfortable for small hands. The books in their original form are in fact lovingly produced, and The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle is one of the best of an excellent lot. The simple text and richly detailed but focused illustrations harmonize beautifully with one another and align perfectly with one another. You don't have to hunt through the book to find the picture that matches the text, it's right there on the facing page. Sadly, this doesn't appear to be true with the current Kindle editions. The free Kindle version has no illustrations at all, though the text appears clean enough, and the version currently listed for $.99 has the full-color illustrations (if your e-reader supports color), which is wonderful, but they are separated from the text so you cannot look at both picture and text at the same time - an important feature for illustrated children's books. Then, too, where print editions of Beatrix Potter tales feature text so carefully laid out on the page it might be mistaken for poetry, the Kindle text (in the illustrated version) appears with all sorts of unexpected line breaks, for example between the letter "O" and "nce" in the beginning sentence "once upon a time. You can tell what happened - they just took a file of typeset text (with an over-sized initial cap.) and converted it to plain text without bothering to clean it up for the Kindle version. Very sad. Yes, it's an incredible bargain price at $.99, but I would much rather pay more to have someone take just a little time with adapting the beautiful original work to a new and potentially marvelous, child-friendly medium.

I found this book on the street yesterday (someone threw it out) and read it---with pleasure. It's a gentle little book of a bygone era, about a sweet little girl who goes looking for her missing handkerchiefs, and has a chance encounter with a kindly, motherly hedgehog who's a laundress.

Although the book, originally published in 1905, is lacking in much plot or tension, there is something charming about it---and brings you back to a bygone era of innocence. Although I don't want to overly idealize the past---certainly there were no lack of terrible things happening to children back then---this does at least show some of the positives of that time. There is nothing sharp or edgy or overly clever about this book, and that makes it a breath of fresh air.

Also, the illustrations are just fantastic---soft and sweet and fun and full of crisp detail. The two-year-old in me was transfixed! Read & enjoy!

This is the story of a little girl named Lucie, who has a habit of losing her pocket-handkerchiefs. When she goes in search of some, she finds a magical door into a hill. Inside there is a little woman covered in prickles who washes clothes for all the animals featured in Beatrix Potter's books: a scarlet waist-coat for Cock Robin, a tablecloth for Jenny Wren, a red handkerchief for Mrs. Rabbit, a pair of stockings for Sally Henny-Penny; and three pocket-handkerchiefs and a pinny for young Lucie.

The two of them walk back down the hill toward Lucie's house, delivering laundry all the way; and when she turns to bid Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle farewell, she sees (as if waking from a dream, Alice-like) a small hedgehog running up the hill. The story ends with the charming postscript reminding the reader that Lucie did return to the stile with her clean laundry as evidence of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle's existence.

This is one of the more fanciful of Potter's books, and since it deals with articles of clothing that are no longer worn in Western society, it is a little harder to follow than some of her stories. Still, it is a charming fantasy for readers who are able to enter into its dreamy spirit.