The Tale of Ginger & Pickles

Beatrix Potter

Jan 1909 · Frederick Warne Publishers

About this ebook

Ginger and Pickles are two shopkeepers who extend unlimited credit to their customers and, as a result, are forced to go out of business. Tabitha Twitchit, the proprietor of the now only village shop, exploits the situation and raises the prices of everything in her shop and refuses to give credit. Although she has trouble counting the change, Sally Henny-Penny decides to reopen the store of Ginger and Pickles. The many bargains will delight everybody. Book illustrated with beautiful Potter's watercolors.

Ratings and reviews

Very nice read. My grandson, who I read them to, was very sad that they had to close the shop because no one paid their bills' that they owed.

I loved the book but the writing was to small.

This book is really cool

About the author

(Helen) Beatrix Potter, 1866 - 1943 (Helen) Beatrix Potter was born in 1866 in London where she was privately educated. During most of her adult life, she lived in a farm cottage in Sawrey, Westmoreland County. She was unsuccessful in trying to publish her serious botanical work, watercolor studies of fungi, but she wrote and privately published "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" for an invalid child in 1900. This story became a children's classic throughout the world. Other animal characters created by her include, Benjamin Bunny, Jemima Puddle-Duck, and Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle. Her tales are illustrated by her own hand in delicate and detailed watercolor pictures depicting her characters. Potter's other works include "The Tailor of Gloucester" published in 1902 and "The Tale of Tom Kitten" published in 1907. At her death in 1943, she bequeathed her property in Sawrey to the National Trust, which also maintains her home as a museum.