The Tailor of Gloucester

A cute adaption of the Elves and the Shoemaker. The illustrations were the best part of this book.

I wish they still had these types of industrious mice nowadays. Mice who will hear your frantic plea for help to complete a deadline at work...and then they'll come running to complete your powerpoint presentation or spreadsheet. Maybe because they're from Gloucester?

Allen Atkinson's lovely

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illustrations make the Beatrix Potter classic even better. The tailor and his helpful mice made such an impression on me when I was small that I actually visited Gloucester. I never found the little rodents, but I did find one of those wonderful alleys full of shops. Certainly, the little ones were busy at work in one of those stores.

"And then I bought
A pipkin and a popkin,
A slipkin and a slopkin,
All for one farthing"

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Wonderful little book !

This is a sweet story of an impoverished older man who is helped by tint mice to make a jacket for the mayors wedding, which he was too sick to make otherwise. It is one of the longer Potter stories but there are also some fun lyrical rhymes that children can engage in.

Sort of a take on The Elves and the Shoemaker, this little drama involves a tailor, a cat and numerous mice. I say drama because it covers the human traits of resentment, vengeance, kindness, charity and repentance, all without one word of preaching.

The illustrations are charming, and the cat is

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perfectly in character. There is a museum in England which has the waistcoat which Potter used as inspiration for her lovely pictures with the "cherry-coloured twist." A sweet little insight into the fashion lives of history.

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This delightful story was the author's own favourite, and is the only one whose central character is a human being rather than an animal. I was prompted to read this following a visit to Gloucester for its annual history festival, which included a short Beatrix Potter walk round the city centre.

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The story is based on the life of a real Gloucester tailor, John Prichard, but the house now occupied by the Beatrix Potter museum and touted in the book as the tailor's shop in College Court is not the historical Prichard's shop, which was in nearby Westgate and is now the (very unassuming) Sword Inn. Anyway, it is of course a charming story.

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My favorite Potter book.