THE TALE OF SQUIRREL NUTKIN - Tales of Peter Rabbit & Friends book 2: Tales of Peter Rabbit & Friends book 2

By Written and Illustrated By Beatrix Potter

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.
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• Language: English
• Publisher: Abela Publishing
• Release date: Feb 3, 2018
• ISBN: 9788827563809

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The Tale of

Squirrel Nutkin

Written and Illustrated BY

BEATRIX POTTER

Author of The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Originally Published By

Frederick Warne, London

[1903]

Resurrected by

Abela Publishing, London

[2018]

The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin

Typographical arrangement of this edition

© Abela Publishing 2018

This book may not be reproduced in its current format in any manner in any media, or transmitted by any means whatsoever, electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, or mechanical ( including photocopy, file or video recording, internet web sites, blogs, wikis, or any other information storage and retrieval system) except as permitted by law without the prior written permission of the publisher.

Abela Publishing,

London

United Kingdom

2018

ISBN-13: 9788-8-27563-80-9

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A Story for Noah

This is a Tale about a tail—a tail that belonged to a little red squirrel, and his name was Nutkin.

He had a brother called Twinkleberry, and