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If one or more items are not available when you place your order there may be a delay in dispatch, so that we can send your items in as few parcels as possible. Items are usually dispatched within twenty-four to seventy-two hours. Her little books never lost their popularity however and today they sell in their millions, translated into numerous languages, and the pleasures of those timeless tales continue to be enjoyed by children all over the world.Orders are processed and dispatched Monday to Friday. For the last thirty years of her life, writing and illustrating gave place to a second career as a sheep farmer and countryside conservationist. As she became financially independent, she was able to buy some land in the Lake District and in 1913, on her marriage to solicitor William Heelis, she moved to live there permanently. In the years before the First World War, demand for her work was so great that she was publishing an average of two new stories a year. She started her career as children's author and illustrator in 1901 when she was thirty-five. She acquired her love and knowledge of the countryside during family holidays, at first in Scotland and then in the Lake District. During her rather lonely childhood and later, as a young woman, she studied art and natural history. The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes is number twelve in Beatrix Potter's series of 23 little books, the titles of which are as follows:Ģ3 Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes Read moreīeatrix has created some of the best-loved characters in children's literature.īeatrix Potter was born in London in 1866. Before long, a strong wind blows the top off the dead tree trunk, but poor Timmy can't get himself out on account of eating far too many nuts and being a little bit too round!īeatrix wrote this story to appeal directly to her American fans and featured animals of American origin (grey squirrels, chipmunks and a black bear) all living happily in the Lake District woods! Luckily, the chipmunk who lived there was very friendly and kind to Timmy. After a terrible misunderstanding, poor Timmy Tiptoes ends up deep inside the trunk of a dead tree, with no means of getting out.
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