The Cuddly Christmas Eve: The Greatest Animal Tales for the Little Ones. Beatrix Potter

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       Beatrix Potter, Margery Williams, Anna Sewell, Kenneth Grahame, L. Frank Baum, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Hugh Lofting, Laura Lee Hope, Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, Amy Ella Blanchard, Amelia C. Houghton, Samuel McChord Crothers, John Punnett Peters, Eugene Field, Charles Dickens, Frances Browne, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Georgianna M. Bishop, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, Archibald Beresford Sullivan, Charlotte B. Herr, Walter Crane

      The Cuddly Christmas Eve: The Greatest Animal Tales for the Little Ones

      e-artnow, 2020

       Contact: [email protected]

      EAN 4064066386825

      Table of Contents

       The Tailor of Gloucester (Beatrix Potter)

       The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Beatrix Potter)

       Black Beauty (Anna Sewell)

       The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame)

       The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (L. Frank Baum)

       Little Bun Rabbit (L. Frank Baum)

       The Velveteen Rabbit (Margery Williams)

       The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (E. T. A. Hoffmann)

       The Adventures of Reddy Fox (Thornton Burgess)

       The Adventures of Johnny Chuck (Thornton Burgess)

       The Adventures of Peter Cottontail (Thornton Burgess)

       The Old Mother West Wind (Thornton Burgess)

       The Story of Doctor Dolittle (Hugh Lofting)

       The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (Hugh Lofting)

       The Story of a Nodding Donkey (Laura Lee Hope)

       The Story of a Stuffed Elephant (Laura Lee Hope)

       Peace on Earth, Good-Will to Dogs (Eleanor Hallowell Abbott)

       Kittyboy's Christmas (Amy Ella Blanchard)

       The Naughty Reindeer (Amelia C. Houghton)

       Miss Muffet's Christmas Party (Samuel McChord Crothers)

       The Animals’ Christmas Tree (John Punnett Peters)

       The Mouse and the Moonbeam (Eugene Field)

       The Cricket on the Hearth (Charles Dickens)

       The Christmas Cuckoo (Frances Browne)

       The Silver Hen (Mary E. Wilkins Freeman)

       The Sparrow and the Fairy (Georgianna M. Bishop)

       The Wonderful Bird (Georgianna M. Bishop)

       The Little Mud-Sparrows (Elizabeth Stuart Phelps)

       The Little Gray Lamb (Archibald Beresford Sullivan)

       How Freckle Frog Made Herself Pretty (Charlotte B. Herr)

       Cat and Dog Stories (Walter Crane)

      The Tailor of Gloucester

       (Beatrix Potter)

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      In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets – when gentlemen wore ruffles, and goldlaced 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 lute-string; stuffs had strange names, and were very expensive in the days of the Tailor of Gloucester.

      But although he sewed fine silk for his neighbours, he himself was very, very poor – a little old man in spectacles, with a pinched face, old crooked fingers, and a suit of threadbare clothes.

      He cut his coats without waste, according to his embroidered cloth; they were very small ends and snippets that lay about upon the table – “Too narrow breadths for nought – except

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