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Abstract: The treasury starts out with the infamous Peter Rabbit, who trespasses in Mr McGregor's garden and gets his pants caught in the fence on the way out. For years, children have felt a stab of sympathy as Peter, punished by his mama, watches his brothers and sisters enjoy dinner without him. Children are also delighted by Two Bad Mice, naughty mice who wreak havoc in poor Jane's room. Other classic Potter characters make their appearance in the treasury as well, including Benjamin Bunny, Mr Jeremy Fisher, Jemima PuddleDuck, and Mrs TittlemouseContains: The tale of Peter Rabbit -- The tailor of Gloucester -- The tale of Squirrel Nutkin -- The tale of Benjamin Bunny -- The tale two bad mice -- The tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle -- The pie and the patty-pan -- The tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher -- The story of a fierce bad rabbit -- The story of Miss Moppet -- The tale of Tom Kitten -- The tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck -- The roly-poly pudding -- The tale of the Flopsy bunnies -- The tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse -- The tale of Timmy Tiptoes -- The tale of Mr. Tod -- The tale of Pigling Bland -- Ginger and Pickles.Helen Beatrix Potter (28 July 1866 – 22 December 1943) was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit.Born into a privileged household, Potter was educated by governesses and grew up isolated from other children. She had numerous pets and spent holidays in Scotland and the Lake District, developing a love of landscape, flora, and fauna, all of which she closely observed and painted.Potter had frogs and newts, and even a pet bat. The basis of her many projects and stories were the small animals that she smuggled into the house or observed during family holidays in Scotland and the Lake District. She was encouraged to publish her story, The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902), but she struggled to find a publisher until it was accepted when she was 36, by Frederick Warne & Co. The small book and her following works were extremely well received and she gained an independent income from the sales. Potter eventually wrote 23 books. These were published in a small format, easy for a child to hold and read. In her thirties, Potter published the highly successful children's book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Potter began writing and illustrating children's books full-time. Potter wrote about 30 books; the best known being her 24 children's tales.

Abstract: La Storia di Peter Coniglio e delle sue disavventure ha fatto sorridere e sognare milioni di lettori piccoli e grandi. Il classico di Beatrix Potter con tutte le illustrazioni originali di Virginia Albert rivive in italiano moderno grazie alla traduzione inedita dello scrittore Jason R. Forbus in questa raffinata edizione digitale.

Abstract: The Tale of Peter Rabbit is the delightful tale of the world's most famous and cheeky rabbit. Original story by Beatrix Potter, with illustrations by Virginia Albert. A mischievous, but very lovable bunny always inclined to do as he pleases instead of what he should. A wonderful bedtime tale presented in a refined digital edition.

Abstract: The Tale of Peter Rabbit, written and superbly illustrated by Beatrix Potter. It follows a mischievous and disobedient young Peter Rabbit as he is chased about the garden of Mr. McGregor after eating vegetables he wasn't supposed to. After a few tight scrapes he escapes but loses his shoes and jacket in his scramble for freedom. He returns home to his mother, who puts him to bed after giving him some camomile tea.The tale was written and exquisitely illustrated by Potter for five-year-old Noel Moore, son of Potter's former governess Annie Carter Moore, in 1893. It was revised and privately printed by Potter in 1901, but was printed in a trade edition by Frederick Warne & Co. in 1902. The book was a success, and multiple reprints were issued in the years immediately following its debut. It has been translated into 36 languages, and with 45 million copies sold it is one of the best-selling books of all time.-------------------Helen Beatrix Potter was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit.Born into a privileged household, Potter was educated by governesses and grew up isolated from other children. She had numerous pets and spent holidays in Scotland and the Lake District, developing a love of landscape, flora, and fauna, all of which she closely observed and painted.Though Potter was typical of women of her generation in having limited opportunities for higher education, her study and watercolours of fungi led to her being widely respected in the field of mycology. In her thirties, Potter self-published the highly successful children's book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Potter began writing and illustrating children's books full-time.In all Potter wrote about 30 books; the best known being her 23 children's tales. With the proceeds from the books and a legacy from an aunt, in 1905 Potter bought Hill Top Farm in Near Sawrey, a village in the Lake District.She died of pneumonia and heart disease on 22 December 1943 at her home in Near Sawrey at the age of 77, leaving almost all her property to the National Trust. She is credited with preserving much of the land that now constitutes the Lake District National Park. Potter's books continue to sell throughout the world in many languages with her stories being retold in song, film, ballet, and animation, and her life depicted in a feature film and television film.---------------------Keywords: Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter, children's stories, lake district, England, bedtime stories, mischievous, animals, Flopsy, Mopsy, Peter, Cotton-tail, Mr McGregor, Mrs. Rabbit, blackberries, naughty, French beans, radish, parsley, cucumber, 'Stop thief, run, fast, watering can, cabbages, robins, lost, sneeze, jump, dash, vegetable garden, cat, fish, outside, free, home, hoe, gate, scarecrow, camomile tea, bread, milk, blackberries, sleep

Abstract: The Tale of Benjamin Bunny is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter. It is a sequel to The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Book in the series published 1902), and tells of Peter's return to Mr. McGregor's garden with his cousin Benjamin to retrieve the clothes he lost there during his previous adventure.When Mr. McGregor and his wife leave home in their gig, Benjamin Bunny and his cousin Peter Rabbit venture into Mr. McGregor's garden to retrieve the clothes Peter lost there in The Tale of Peter Rabbit. They find the blue jacket and brown shoes on a scarecrow, but Peter is apprehensive about lingering in the garden because of his previous experience. Benjamin delays their departure by gathering onions, which he wraps in Peter's handkerchief, hoping to give them to his aunt, Peter's mother. He then takes a casual stroll around the garden, followed by an increasingly nervous Peter.Rounding a corner, they see a cat and hide under a basket, but the cat then sits on top of the basket for five hours, trapping the pair. Benjamin's father enters the garden looking for his son. He knocks the cat away from the basket and locks her in the greenhouse, then rescues Benjamin and Peter. But he also punishes them for going to Mr. McGregor's garden by whipping them with a switch he had brought. Once home, Peter gives the onions to his mother, who forgives his adventure because he has recovered his jacket and shoes. Following his return, Mr. McGregor is puzzled by the ridiculously small footprints and the scarecrow's missing clothes and cant figure out how the cat got himself locked in the greenhouse.In Benjamin Bunny, Potter deepened the rabbit universe she created in Peter Rabbit, and, in doing so, suggested the rabbit world was parallel to the human world but complete and sufficient unto itself.Benjamin Bunny was an instant commercial and popular success, and thousands of copies were in print by the end of 1904. The Times Literary Supplement thought Potter's illustrations "pencil perfect", but suggested that she engage a literary assistant for future productions. Potter created a nursery wallpaper tapping Benjamin's image, and Benjamin returned as an adult rabbit in the Flopsy Bunnies and Mr. Tod. In 1992, Benjamin Bunny was adapted as an episode of the BBC animated television series, "The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends."=============KEYWORDS: Beatrix Potter, children's stories, lake district, England, bedtime stories, helpful, Benjamin, bunny, rabbit, Cat, onions, Mr. McGregor, garden, retrieve, clothes, peter rabbit, blue jacket, brown shoes, previous experience, handkerchief, mother, corner, trapped, free, Mr Bunny, discipline, home

Abstract: The Tale of Two Bad Mice is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, and published by Frederick Warne & Co. in September 1904. The tale is about two mice who vandalize a dollhouse. After finding the food on the dining room table made of plaster, they smash the dishes, throw the doll clothing out the window, tear the bolster, and carry off a number of articles to their mouse-hole. When the little girl who owns the dollhouse discovers the destruction, she positions a policeman doll outside the front door to ward off any future depredation. The two mice atone for their crime spree by putting a crooked sixpence in the doll's stocking on Christmas Eve and sweeping the house every morning with a dust-pan and broom.Potter took inspiration for the tale from two mice caught in a cage-trap in her cousin's home and a dollhouse being constructed by her editor and publisher Norman Warne as a Christmas gift for his niece Winifred. While the tale was being developed, Potter and Warne fell in love and became engaged, much to the annoyance of Potter's parents, who were grooming their daughter to be a permanent resident and housekeeper in their London home.The tale's themes of rebellion, insurrection, and individualism reflect not only Potter's desire to free herself of her domineering parents and build a home of her own, but her fears about independence and her frustrations with Victorian domesticity.The book was critically well received and brought Potter her first fan letter from America. The tale was adapted to a segment in the 1971 Royal Ballet film The Tales of Beatrix Potter and to an animated episode in the BBC series The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends. Merchandise inspired by the tale includes Beswick Pottery porcelain figurines and Schmid music boxes.=============TAGS: Tale of Two Bad Mice, Mouse, Beatrix Potter, children's stories, doll's house, theft, destruction, atonement, Christmas, Gift, love, engagement, policeman doll, front door, depredation, crooked sixpence, stocking, clean house, keep house, sweep,

Abstract: The Tailor of Gloucester is a children's story about a tailor whose work on a waistcoat is finished by the grateful mice he rescues from his cat. It was based on a real world incident involving a tailor and his assistants. The third book in the series, for years Potter declared that of all her books it was her personal favourite.A tailor in Gloucester sends his cat Simpkin to buy food and a twist of cherry-coloured silk to complete a waistcoat commissioned by the mayor for his wedding on Christmas morning. Whilst Simpkin is gone, the tailor finds mice the cat has imprisoned under teacups. The mice are released and scamper away. When Simpkin returns and finds his mice gone, he hides the twist in anger.The tailor falls ill and is unable to complete the waistcoat, but, upon returning to his shop, he is surprised to find the waistcoat finished which has been completed by the grateful mice. However, one buttonhole remains unfinished because there was "no more twist!" Simpkin gives the tailor the twist to complete the work and the success and beauty of the waistcoat makes the tailor's fortune.=============TAGS: Tailor, Gloucester, Beatrix Potter, children's stories, lake district, England, bedtime stories, helpful, mouse, mice, Cat, waistcoat, coat, velvet, gold, embroidery, Simpkin, favourite, twist if cherry coloured silk, teacups, imprison, release, freedom, scamper away, hide, sew, illness, buttonhole, no more twist, success, thing of beauty

Abstract: The Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, and first published in July 1909.In The Flopsy Bunnies, Benjamin Bunny and his cousin Flopsy are the parents of six young rabbits called simply The Flopsy Bunnies. The story concerns how the Flopsy Bunnies, while raiding a rubbish heap of rotting vegetables, fall asleep and are captured by Mr. McGregor who places them in a sack. While McGregor is distracted, the six are freed by Thomasina Tittlemouse, a woodmouse, and the sack filled with rotten vegetables by Benjamin and Flopsy. At home, Mr. McGregor proudly presents the sack to his wife, but receives a sharp scolding when she discovers its actual content.NOTE: After two full-length tales about rabbits, Potter had grown weary of the subject and was reluctant to write another. She realized however that children most enjoyed her rabbit stories and pictures, and so reached back to characters and plot elements from The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902) and The Tale of Benjamin Bunny (1904) to create The Flopsy Bunnies. A semi-formal garden of archways and flowerbeds in Wales at the home of her uncle and aunt became the background for the illustrations.=============KEYWORDS: Beatrix Potter, children's stories, lake district, Wales, England, bedtime stories, flopsy bunnies, raid, rubbish heap, fall asleep, capture, Mr Mc Gregor, sack, tie up, distract, freedom, woodmouse, Thomasina Tittlemouse, rotten vegetables, Benjamin Bunny, sharp, scolding, present, contents

Abstract: The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck s a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter and first published in July 1908.Jemima is a domestic duck of the Aylesbury breed, whose eggs are routinely confiscated by the farmer's wife because she believes Jemima a poor sitter. Jemima searches for a place away from the farm where she can hatch her eggs without human interference, and naively confides her woes to a suave fox who invites her to nest in a shed at his home. Jemima accepts his invitation, little realising her danger: the fox plans to kill and roast her.Kep, a collie on the farm, discovers Jemima's whereabouts and rescues her just in time. Potter indicated the tale was a revision of "Little Red Riding Hood" with Jemima, the fox, and the dog parallels to the fairy tale's heroine, wolf, and woodcutter. Jemima, Kep, the farmer's wife, and her two children were all modelled on real world individuals at Potter's Hill Top farm.NOTE: Potter composed the book at Hill Top, a working farm in the Lake District which she bought in 1905. Following the purchase, her works began to focus on country and village life, incorporating large casts of animal characters and sinister villains. Jemima Puddle-Duck was the first of her books set wholly at the farm with background illustrations based on the farm buildings and yard, and nearby locales.=============TAGS: Beatrix Potter, Jemima, Puddle-Duck children's stories, lake district, Hill Top Farm, England, bedtime stories, helpful, duck, fox, eggs, ducklings, fox, country gentleman, summer home, red riding hood, country life, village life, kep, puppies, farmer's wife, children, sitter, sitting, nest, shed, straw, hay, herbs, danger, accept, invitation, rescue,

Abstract: The Tale Of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle is a children's story written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter. Mrs. Tiggy-winkle is a hedgehog washerwoman who lives in a tiny cottage in the fells of the Lake District. A child named Lucie happens upon the cottage and stays for tea. The two deliver freshly laundered clothing to the animals and birds in the neighbourhood. Potter thought the book would be best enjoyed by girls, and, like most girls' books of the period, it is set indoors with a focus on housework.Potter's pet hedgehog, Mrs. Tiggy-winkle, and Kitty MacDonald, a Scottish washerwoman, were the inspirations for the eponymous heroine. Lucie Carr, a child friend of Potter's, was the model for the fictional Lucie. Potter's Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny make cameo appearances in the illustrations. The Newlands Valley and the surrounding fells are the sources for the backgrounds in the illustrations.NOTE: Mrs. Tiggy-winkle has been described as one of Potter's most positive creations, but critics consider Lucie an artistic failure. Although Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle is set in an identifiable place and time period, the tale is mythologized by reaching back to an age when household chores were performed manually and without the aid of modern mechanical inventions. The simple dwellings, rustic pathways, and stone fences enhance the tale's timeless aspect and suggest an unchanging countryside and its way of life.=============TAGS: Beatrix Potter, children's stories, lake district, England, bedtime stories, helpful, Tiggy-Winkle, hedgehog, porcupine, washerwoman, tiny, cottage, fells, Lucie, stay for tea, deliver, freshly laundered clothing, animals, birds, neighbourhood. girls, boys, indoors, housework, Kitty MacDonald, Scottish, inspiration, heroine, Lucie Carr, model, Peter Rabbit, Benjamin Bunny, cameo, Newlands Valley, background

Abstract: The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan is a children's story written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter. The story tells of a cat called Ribby and a tea party she holds for a dog called Duchess. Complications arise when Duchess tries to replace Ribby's mouse pie with her own veal and ham pie, and then believes she has swallowed a small tin pastry form called a patty-pan. Its themes are etiquette and social relations in a small town.The illustrations depict the cottages and gardens of Sawrey, a village in the Lake District near Potter's Hill Top farm, and have been described as some of the most exquisite Potter ever produced. Ribby was modelled on a cat living in Sawrey, Duchess on two Pomeranians belonging to Potter's neighbour Mrs Rogerson, Tabitha Twitchit on Potter's cat at Hill Top, and Dr Maggoty on the magpies in the London Zoological Gardens.Simple dwellings, rustic pathways, and stone fences inspired Potter's imagination and enhance the tale's timeless aspect and suggest an unchanging countryside and its way of life.=============TAGS: Beatrix Potter, children's stories, lake district, England, bedtime stories, helpful, background, timeless countryside, hill top farm, Ribby, cat, Duchess, Dog, Patty Pan, mouse pie, veal and ham pie, swallow, cottages, shop, street, tin, pastry, small town, etiquette, social relations, Sawrey, Pomeranian, Dr Maggoty, magpie, rustic pathway, simple dwellings, timeless, aspect, way of life

Abstract: The tale is about a badger called Tommy Brock and his arch enemy Mr. Tod, a fox. Brock kidnaps the children of Benjamin Bunny and his wife Flopsy, intending to eat them, and hides them in an oven in the home of Mr. Tod. Benjamin and his cousin Peter Rabbit have followed Tommy Brock in an attempt to rescue the babies.

Abstract: Il primo di quattro volumi che raccolgono le opere complete illustrate di Beatrix Potter. Nuova traduzione a cura del Centro Studi Tethis, specializzato in edizioni critiche e collezioni letterarie.La storia di Peter ConiglioLa storia di Nutkin ScoiattoloIl sarto di GloucesterLa storia di Benjamin ConiglioLa storia di Due Topini CattiviLa storia della Signora Trovatutto

Abstract: Il secondo volume delle opere complete illustrate della scrittrice inglese.Nuova traduzione integrale a cura dello Studio Tethis, specializzato in edizioni critiche e collezioni letterarie.IL RACCONTO DELLA TORTA E DELLA TORTIERALA STORIA DI MR. JEREMY PESCATORELA STORIA DEL CONIGLIETTO CATTIVOLA STORIA DI MISS MOPPETLA STORIA DI TOM MICIOIL RACCONTO DI JEMINA ANATRA DEGLI STAGNI 

Abstract: Il était une fois quatre petits lapins qui s'appelaient Flopsaut, Trotsaut, Queue-de-Coton et Pierre. Ils demeuraient avec leur mère dans un terrier sablonneux, creusé sous les racines d'un très gros sapin. L'histoire de Pierre Lapin et de ses mésaventures a fait sourire et rêver des millions de personnes, des plus petits aux plus grands. 

Abstract: "كعك".. و"عَلْك".. و"مِسك".. و"نجمة الفلك".. كانت أربعة أرانب صغيرة..  تعيش مع أمها في جحر رملي.. حُفر أسفل جذور شجرة أرز ضخمة.حكاية الأرنوب "كعك" ومغامراته ترسم الابتسامة على شفاه الملايين من الناس صغاراً وكباراً وتسافر بهم في عوالم الأحلام.

Abstract: Det var en gång fyra små kaniner och deras namn var - Flopsi, Mopsi, Bomullssvans, och Peter.Sagan om Peter Kanin är den underbara berättelsen om världens mest kända och busiga kanin. Det här är en originalberättelse av Beatrix Potter med färgade illustrationer av Virginia Albert. Peter är en olydig men mycket älskvärd kanin, alltid redo att gå sin egen väg istället för göra vad han är tillsagd. En fantastisk godnattsaga utgiven i en uppdaterad upplaga.

Abstract: The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter and first published by Frederick Warne & Co. in August 1903. The story is about an impertinent red squirrel named Nutkin and his narrow escape from an owl called Old Brown. The book followed Potter's hugely successful The Tale of Peter Rabbit, and was an instant hit. The now familiar endpapers of the Peter Rabbit series were introduced in the book.One commentator has likened Squirrel Nutkin's impertinent behaviour to that of the rebellious working-class of Potter's own day, and another commentator has noted the tale's similarities to pourquoi tales and folk tales in its explanations of Squirrel Nutkin's short tail and characteristics of squirrel behaviour. An abbreviated version of the tale appeared as a segment in the 1971 ballet film, The Tales of Beatrix Potter.Squirrel Nutkin had its origins in a story and picture letter Potter sent Norah Moore, the daughter of her former governess, Annie Carter Moore. The background illustrations were modelled on Derwentwater and St. Herbert's Island in the Lake District.10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities by the publisher.=============TAGS: Squirrel Nutkin, Beatrix Potter, children's stories, lake district, Derwentwater, England, bedtime stories, mischievous, animals, Owl, brother, Twinkleberry, wood, lake, trees, nut bushes, Old Brown Owl, hazel, raft of twigs, Owl Island, Rhyme, riddles, asleep, sacks, nuts, fat mole, Mr Brown, Hitty Pitty, oak-apples, scarlet, yellow, paddle, fat minnow, six fat beetles, dock-leaf, pine-needle pin, Flour of England, fruit of Spain, robin, pincushion, hill, tippitty top, bonniest swine, Tipple-tine, impertinence, honey, big flat rock, ninepins, laughing, shouting, Humpty Dumpty, beck, Hickamore, sunbeam, King of Scots, Arthur of the Bower, waistcoat, staircase,

Abstract: Una nuova traduzione della fiaba di Beatrix Potter. Il testo parziale a fronte favorisce l'avvicinamento alla lettura in lingua inglese.

Abstract: La vita degli scoiattoli ha i suoi ritmi e le sue complicazioni, proprio come quella degli umani. Peraltro, esattamente come questi ultimi, anche gli animali hanno il loro carattere. È questo il caso di Nutkin, lo scoiattolo rosso protagonista della prima storia, che è proprio uno sfacciato e continua a combinarne di tutti i colori. Non perde occasione per recitare qualche sciocca filastrocca o stuzzicare con un comportamento irrispettoso Old Brown, il vecchio gufo che vive nell'isola vicino al bosco. Poi però anche la pazienza si esaurisce e… be' a Nutkin succede qualcosa che gli farà passare per sempre la voglia di fare il monello. Tempo di provviste invece per i coniugi Tiptoes. Per Timmy e Goody, due scoiattoli grigi, è arrivato il momento di mettere da parte quanto servirà loro a superare senza problemi i lunghi mesi dell'inverno e della primavera. Oltre a raccogliere tante buone nocciole, c'è il problema di trovare un luogo asciutto e sicuro per sistemarle. E la ricerca delle provviste in vista di quando nel bosco non ci sarà granché da mangiare, non riguarda solo loro due, ma tutti gli scoiattoli della comunità che vive nei dintorni. Proprio per colpa delle nocciole il nostro Timmy a un certo punto sembrerà finito nel nulla, ma Goody saprà ritrovarlo. Sano e salvo per fortuna, anche se un po' troppo grassottello!