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The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck

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40: 230: 221:. The farm (as opposed to Hill Top, the house that Potter used in numerous tales) was home to her agent John Cannon and his family, with a small herd of cows, thirty sheep, and some pigs, ducks, and chickens. Mrs Cannon was in the habit of getting her chicken "Henny Penny" to sit on duck eggs when the mother, as often happened, was a "bad sitter". 200:. Her biographer Judy Taylor suggests that a drawing by Beatrix's father, Rupert Potter, of a flying duck wearing a bonnet, may have been a forerunner of Jemima Puddle-Duck, and indeed there is a painting of Jemima flying in a bonnet in the book. One of her early stories, too, a book of fables called 237:
Jemima Puddle-Duck is not allowed to keep the eggs she lays at the farm, so she seeks out a nesting place in the forest. A charming gentleman fox talks her into nesting at his house on a mysteriously ample supply of feathers. He sends the naive Jemima out to collect traditional herbs for stuffing a
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Taylor comments that the tale is a cautionary fable warning about going into the unknown. The story's curiously ambiguous elements, such as Jemima's nesting in a pile of feathers, and her obediently collecting
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duck, saying it is for an omelette. The farm collie, Kep, is able to see through the fox's plan and rescues Jemima. She is eventually able to hatch four ducklings back at the farm.
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to eat when he makes a meal of Jemima, offer a lesson in irony. The book is almost as popular as the first of Potter's "little books",
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In 1993, an animated film adaptation of the story was featured on the
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Jemima makes her first appearance in print in the 1907 book
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The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or, The Roly-Poly Pudding
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The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding
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and first published by Frederick Warne & Co. in
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The Adventures of Peter Rabbit & Benjamin Bunny
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Index

Jemima Puddle-Duck

Beatrix Potter
Beatrix Potter
English
Children's literature
Frederick Warne & Co
1908
England
Hardback
The Tale of Tom Kitten
The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or, The Roly-Poly Pudding
children's book
Beatrix Potter
1908
The Tale of Tom Kitten
Lake District
Hill Top
The Tale of Tom Kitten

sage
onion
stuffing
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
BBC
anthology series
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
Taylor 1987
Taylor 1987

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