It's Beatrix Potter Week

It’s Beatrix Potter Week

We are winding down our summer reading program, so let’s end with a BANG.  We can add lots of pages this week as we celebrate the works of Beatrix Potter.  One reason that I want to do this is because Hill Top Farm, her home, is just a few miles from Amanda’s temporary home in the Lake District.  I’m planning to go there when I visit Amanda in a few weeks. 

There was a movie about Beatrix, Miss Potter, which came out several years ago.  It might be fun to watch it; however, ours is not a summer movie program.  We are reading!  So I suggest that you read Beatrix Potter by Alexandra Wallner.  It gives a simple life sketch.  There may be some other books about her in your library; choose what suits you and what is on the shelf.  Then try reading some of her delightful tales.  Did you know that Beatrix’s editor wanted her to make the drawings in her first book larger?  She would not enlarge the pictures, saying that the book needed to be small so that children’s hands could hold it easily.

Although she wrote a few other books, she is most famous for her 23 “tales.”  They are:

1.     The Tale of Peter Rabbit

2.     The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin

3.     The Tailor of Gloucester

4.     The Tale of Benjamin Bunny

5.     The Tale of Two Bad Mice

6.     The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle

7.     The Tale of The Pie and The Patty-Pan

8.     The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher

9.     The Story of A Fierce Bad Rabbit

10.  The Story of Miss Moppet

11.  The Tale of Tom Kitten

12.  The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck

13.  The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding

14.  The Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies

15.  The Tale of Ginger and Pickles

16.  The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse

17.  The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes

18.  The Tale of Mr. Tod

19.  The Tale of Pigling Bland

20.  Appley Dapply’s Nursery Rhymes

21.  The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse

22.  Cecily Parsley’s Nursery Rhymes

23.  The Tale of Little Pig Robinson

Anyone who reads five or more of these books will add significantly to our page count.  As an added bonus, if you read them and then REPORT it to me, I will bring you a special gift from Hill Top Farm.  Do I have any takers?