About this title: This complete and unabridged collection contains all 23 of Beatrix Potter's Tales in one deluxe volume with all their original illustrations. The stories are arranged in the order in which they were first published to enable them to be read in proper sequence, as several are linked together by events and characters. A section at the end of the book contains four additional works by Beatrix Potter that were not published in her own lifetime.
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Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Very Good. 072325804X New in slightly damaged slip case with remainder mark. Free bookmarks with all orders and all orders ship same or next business day! 431. read more
Description: Fine. 072325804X New in open slipcase with remainder mark. Free bookmarks with all orders and all orders ship same or next business day! 441. read more
Binding: CD-Audio
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780723258827ISBN:0723258821
Description: BRAND NEW CD-AUDIO. A six-cd audio box-set, which contains the entire collection of stories by beatrix potter, in an unabridged format. featuring characters that children love and adore, such as peter rabbit, squirrel nutkin and others, these stories are read by a talented cast of readers, including patricia routledge, timothy west, michael hordern, and others. (CD-Audio) read more
Binding: Hardcover: Slipcase
Publisher: Frederick Warne & Co
Date Published: 2006-10-19
ISBN-13:9780723258049ISBN:072325804X
Description: NEW. Hardcover: Slipcase. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780723258049. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Warne
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780723258049ISBN:072325804X
Description: New. Brand New! Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Binding: Hardback with Slipcase
Publisher: F Warne Publishers Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780723258049ISBN:072325804X
Description: New in New jacket. Brand new still shrinkwrapped; oversized hardback with dustjacket and in slipcase; silver lettering to slipcase and dustjacket; original authorized text and illus.; 23 tales; 400 pages. NOTE: oversized, may require extra shipping; inquire. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Frederick Warne and Company
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780723258049ISBN:072325804X
Description: New in new dust jacket. 400 pages, 8 1/4 x 10 1/2; Ages 3-8. Absolutely Brand New! This complete and unabridged collection contains all 23 of Beatrix Potter's Tales in one deluxe volume with all their original illustrations. The stories are arranged in the order in which they were first published so they may be read in their proper sequence. A special section at the end of this volume contains four additional works by Beatrix Potter that were not published during her lifetime. Beautifully ... read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780723258049ISBN:072325804X
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 400 pages. (400 pages) contains 23 of beatrix potter's tales. the stories are arranged in the order in which they were first published to enable them to be read in proper sequence, as several are linked together by events and characters. a section at the end of the book contains four additional works by beatrix potter that were not published in her own lifetime. col. illustrations (Hardback) read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780723264026ISBN:0723264023
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 400 pages. Contains 23 of beatrix potter's tales. this book contains four additional works by beatrix potter that were not published in her own lifetime. col. ill (Hardback) read more
Edition: 6th Printing
Binding: Large Softcover
Publisher: Frederick Warne
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780723244509ISBN:0723244502
Description: Good. Cover creased, interior excellent. 400 pp. 7 3/4" x 9 7/8". Includes the 23 original Peter Rabbit books, plus 4 unpublished works, with new colour reproductions of Potter's original illustrations. "Here are the delightful stories of Peter Rabbit, Squirrel Nutkin, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, and all the other Beatrix Potter favorites collected for the first time in one volume. " read more
"Beatrix Potter remains one of my favourite authors. I discovered her tales when I was about 7 years old and have revisited her stories over and over. I love the illustrations in particular.
Having visited Beatrix Potter's Lake District I have become even more fascinated by her stories. The places in her tales remain largely unchanged even today."
"PRELUDE; A few weeks ago went to see the film of the Royal Ballet dancing several Tales of Beatrix Potter. The ballet choreographed by Frederick Ashton with music, really delightful, by John Lanchbery was first made into a film some years ago.This recent production was filmed in the actual theatre. There were only two of us in the movie theatre.I was sitting right at the back and was sorely tempted to get up and dance to my heart's content across the large open area behind the last row of seats. I didn't but I did cavort round the house when I got home and played the music. I came to Beatrix Potter late, about age 31.(It's never TOO late!!) Took a break from my job in Athens to join my Mum and Step-father in a motoring holiday around the U.K. Was reading BP's biography by Margaret Lane - an excellent one. And so of course when we hit the Lake District we ended up at her wonderful house left exactly as she had left it. Mum photographed me standing in the doorway where BP had her photo taken.(I knew because the photo was in the book!!)Later Mum was to run around the moors on the edge of Haworth crying out "Heathcliff!!Heathcliff!!!"in a much darker literary clime. After which we got caught in a Yorkshire storm and staggered into our hotel dying of laughter, while my step-father gave us fierce disapproving looks which made us laugh all the more.(He WAS an Accountant, and I'm sure had NEVER read a Beatrix Potter!!) So now I am going to read first the several Tales that were recreated for the ballet. And then follow up with ALL the rest. Ah, blisssssss!!!
MUCH LATER: Now aged almost 62, short of a couple of weeks, I have read All the Tales in Chronological Order. And discovered that Beatrix has a Dark Side!!!(Scarey!!!) In the VERY FIRST story, The Tale of Peter Rabbit", Mrs Rabbit tells her children where they may and may not go, warning them off Mr.McGregor's garden :"...your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs McGregor."(Ouch!!There goes Junior's slumberful night!) Often Beatrix's Own Inspirations didn't live to tell their Tale. Mr Jeremy Fisher - dissected. Peter Rabbit - death by chloroform, followed by dissection and drawn for illustrative purposes. Jemima Puddleduck - ditto. And Squirrel Nutkin shot - at Beatty's request for drawing. And Guess Who performed the dissections. (Not a question!)
Is it surprising then, given the blood on Beatty's hands, that every Tale has at least one sentence that lets Junior know all is NOT well with the World. Life itself is under threat. Even if its just Ginger, (the cat who shared ownership of the popular village shop with Pickles the terrier, popular because it gave generous credit), who had to ask Pickles to serve their mouse customers because they made his mouth water. ("I cannot bear to see them going out at the door carrying their little parcels," he confessed.) Pickles had to make a similar confession about rats, but being a Realist added:"..but it would never do to eat our own customers; they would leave us and go to Tabitha Twitchet's."(The cat whose shop did NOT give credit.)Being much more of a realist, which one would expect of a cat, Ginger replied gloomily: "On the contrary,they would go nowhere." Ginger"s and Pickle's business finally collapses because of their customers' greed( ALL characters from the Tales I am shocked to tell you!!!).They NEVER paid a penny, so poor Ginger and Pickles were forced to eat their own goods...but never laid claw or tooth on their clientle, to their credit.(No pun intended, I assure you!)Pickles became a gamekeeper and Ginger went to live on the warren and became stout and comfortable. Would it surprise you to learn that a warren is a place where rabbits abound? Although Miss Potter tells us:"I do not know what occupation he pursues", her drawing shows Ginger laying nasty traps with big metal teeth - on the warren!!!(Miss Potter's illustrations often convey information she does NOT provide in the text!!)And Miss Tabitha Twitchett put up all her prices and refused to give credit!!!!!
After this Tale of 1909 Miss Potter's Tales just get nastier and nastier. They are thrilling and delightful!! I'm sure All those Edwardian era Mums and Dads had no idea what subversiveness and violence was being smuggled into Junior's nursery under innocent covers. By 1912 Miss Potter had declared that she was tired of writing "goody goody books about nice people." No wonder World War One broke out only a couple of years later. And yet the History Books never mention Miss Potter as one of the chief underlying causes. Feminism has alot to answer for.
EPILOGUE: Miss Potter knew alot. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder??? Tom Kitten, ,victim of the rats Anna Maria, who tied him up, and her husband Mr.Samuel Whiskers who helped her encase him in dough to be cooked and eaten, is rescued just in time. But ever afterwards "he has always been afraid of a rat; he never durst face anything that is bigger than - a mouse!" And I doubt any sensitive reader will either. Except the Insensitive who will no doubt join the Army."
"My mother read these to me as a child and have continued to go back and read them. Beautiful pictures and cute, almost "stuffy" characters (the author is British)."
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