The tale is set in a forest and begins with "once upon a time". Timmy Tiptoes is "a little fat comfortable grey squirrel" living in a nest thatched with leaves in the top of a tall tree with his little wife, Goody. Over the course of several days, the two collect nuts in their little sacks for the coming winter and spring, and store the nuts in hollow tree stumps near their home. Timmy wears a red jacket he removes while working, and his wife wears a pink dress and apron. When the stumps are full, the couple make use of a ...
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The tale is set in a forest and begins with "once upon a time". Timmy Tiptoes is "a little fat comfortable grey squirrel" living in a nest thatched with leaves in the top of a tall tree with his little wife, Goody. Over the course of several days, the two collect nuts in their little sacks for the coming winter and spring, and store the nuts in hollow tree stumps near their home. Timmy wears a red jacket he removes while working, and his wife wears a pink dress and apron. When the stumps are full, the couple make use of a tree-hole that once belonged to a woodpecker. The nuts rattle "down down down inside", and Goody wonders how they will ever retrieve them. Timmy reminds her he will be much thinner by springtime and will be able to pass through the little hole.In an aside, the narrator tells the reader that the couple had great quantities of nuts because they never lost them, noting that most squirrels lose half their nuts because they cannot remember where they buried them. Silvertail is the most forgetful of squirrels in the wood, and, while trying to find his nuts, digs up another squirrel's hoard. A commotion erupts among the nutting squirrels, and, as ill luck would have it, a flock of birds fly by singing "Who's bin digging-up my nuts?"
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Potter, Beatrix. Very Good in dw jacket. Cream paper-covered boards. Maroon lettering on covers. Picture onlay to front cover. Dustwrapper worn, marked, and price-clipped, with the spine ends reinforced. Book itself is VG.
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Potter, Beatrix. Very Good in dw jacket. Cream paper-covered boards. Brown lettering on covers. Picture onlay to front cover. Light wear to dustwrapper. Dustwrapper price-clipped.
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Potter, Beatrix. Good. No jacket. GC. Frederick Warne. Copyright page, 1911, later printing, probably 1930's-1940's. Pictorial small format tan hardback(red lettering on the front cover and spine, small tear on the top edge of the spine, large mark on the back cover, some marks, nicks, dents and light shelf wear on the cover) in GC, no Dj. Illustrated inside the front and back cover, colour plates, b/w drawing. Illustrations by Beatrix Potter. Clean pages with small foxing marks and tainted on the outer edges, small stain marks, nicks and creases on the edges of the pages. The book is in GC for its age with some shelf wear.59pp.
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Good. All orders are dispatched within 1 working day from our UK warehouse. Established in 2004, we are dedicated to recycling unwanted books on behalf of a number of UK charities who benefit from added revenue through the sale of their books plus huge savings in waste disposal. No quibble refund if not completely satisfied.
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Very good. Undated EDITION with slightly torn at spine dust jacket-rare and collectable-will send out 1 st class post within 12 hours of receipt of order.
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