About this title: While searching for her lost handkerchiefs, a little girl named Lucie meets Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, a hedgehog who does laundry for all the other animals. Illustrated with watercolor paintings.
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Binding: Glossy Hardcover
Publisher: Penguin Group, London
Date Published: 1992
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. Very Good + No Jacket 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. A nice solid copy with secure binding and clean, intact pages. Two lightly bumped corners, otherwise very minor shelf wear to edges and corners. 59 pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Frederick Warne and Company
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780723234654ISBN:0723234655
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Pages are clean and in very good condition, no writing or highlighting on inside book pages, minor wear on the dust jacket. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: F. Warne & Co., New York
Date Published: 1905
Description: Potter, Beatrix. Fair. No dust jacket. There is heavy wear to the head and tail of the backstrip. The corners are worn to the boards. The edges of the text block are foxed. There are scattered stains and smudges. Guft inscription. 85 p. Includes illustrations. Sewn Binding. Paper over boards. Children's book. 14 cm. Illustrated endpapers. read more
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"Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle was a charming, though rather uneventful, half-mystery that was solved by Beatrix Potter's delightful-as-usual illustrations long before the text caught up. The tale was cute and sweet, but not my favorite."
"This is a delightful story about little Lucie's search for her hankies. She asks several other animals before she spends time with the cute Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle! One of the delights of this story is the appearance of several other famous Beatrix Potter characters. Love the illustrations, too!"
"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."
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