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    The Tailor of Gloucester
    The Tailor of Gloucester
    The Tailor of Gloucester
    Audiobook20 minutes

    The Tailor of Gloucester

    Written by Beatrix Potter

    Narrated by Josh Verbae

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    In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets—when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta—there lived a tailor in Gloucester. He sat in the window of a little shop in Westgate Street, cross-legged on a table, from morning till dark. All day long while the light lasted he sewed and snippeted, piecing out his satin and pompadour, and lutestring; stuffs had strange names, and were very expensive in the days of the Tailor of Gloucester. Read in English, unabridged.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherInteractive Media
    Release dateSep 15, 2015
    ISBN9781910833414
    Author

    Beatrix Potter

    Helen Beatrix Potter was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist; she was best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as The Tale of Peter Rabbit.

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    • 5/5
      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 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.
    • 5/5
      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. 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.
    • 3/5
      A cute adaption of the Elves and the Shoemaker. The illustrations were the best part of this book.
    • 5/5
      Simply adorable tale by Beatrix Potter. Ageless.
    • 5/5
      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 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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    • 5/5
      Wonderful little book !
    • 4/5
      The tailor is too sick to work, but he has left snippings for clothes for the mice. To thank him, they finish his work. Simpkin, his cat, has hidden the thread he got on an errand, but seeing the mice work so hard, he gives it to his master.