It's been a weird re-initiation into children's literature. I came back to Beatrix Potter only recently, when reading to my 15-month-old daughter. Mr McCracken Peck seems to have forgotten, for instance, that Squirrel Nutkin is reduced to a gibbering wreck by the final page, hurling sticks at anyone who asks him how he lost his bushy tail (the reader knows: it was snipped off by Old Brown Owl). In 1993, an animated film adaptation was telecast on the BBC anthology series, The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends with the voices of Rosemary Leach as Tabitha Twitchet, John Gordon Sinclair as John Joiner, Patricia Routledge as Ribby, Struan Rodger as Samuel Whiskers, and Sheila Hancock as Anna Maria.I have just one problem with that - the idea that Potter's world is in any way comforting. Butterworth published a dramatic adaptation of the tale as Mr. Farmer Potatoes was based on a local man called Poslethwaite. The cat family home was based on Beatrix Potter's own house, Hill Top in Cumbria. Tabitha's shop is again mentioned in The Tale of Ginger and Pickles (1909) which also included Samuel Whiskers and Anna Maria. The family had also appeared in The Tale of Tom Kitten in 1907. Ribby was one of the main characters of The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan (published in 1905), which also featured Tabitha Twitchit as a shop keeper, with the kittens appearing in the illustrations. Samuel Whiskers and Anna Maria escape to the barn of Farmer Potatoes, spreading their chaos to another location, though leaving the cat family residence in peace. They quickly call for John Joiner, a terrier, who saws open the floor and rescues Tom Kitten. Ribby who has been helping search for Tom Kitten. However, when they proceed to settle the dough with a rolling-pin, the noise gets through the floorboards and attracts the attention of Tabitha Twitchit and her friend Mrs. They catch him and proceed to cover him with butter and dough in order to eat him as a pudding. Tabitha puts Moppet and Mittens in a cupboard in order to keep them under control, but Tom Kitten escapes up the chimney.Īs he makes his way to the top of the house, he comes across a crack in the wall and, squeezing through it, finds himself under the attic's floorboards. Tabitha Twitchit, and sisters, Moppet and Mittens, in a house overrun with rats. Tom Kitten is a young cat who lives with his mother, Mrs. The rats trying to turn Tom Kitten into a roly-poly pudding.

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