The Tale Of Jemima Puddle-Duck (2015) - Plot & Excerpts
Another wonderful helping of Miss Potter and her charming stories. Yay!Although, looking at other posters, I think I have the "complete" edition, instead of this one.This book is another simple but engaging read, with some wonderful vocabulary lessons and treats children like they actually deserve to be treated. As always, the colorful and vibrant illustrations make their appearance.This may be traitorous to my generation, but Old School is definitely looking superior at the moment. A time when children were not sheltered but instead treated like they were actually capable of handling dark elements. A time when the intelligence of children was either instilled or pandered to. A time when a simple tale still had alot of depth to it.Miss Potter this time offers up the story of Jemima Puddle Duck. A simple duck, who just wants to hatch her precious eggs. Poor naive Jemima is taken advantage of by the sinister, but exceptionally polite, Mr Fox. Proving that you shouldn't always be so trusting.I recently read this to my nephew of 5. He adored the story, got a little bit scared for the eggs but ended up happy that Jemima got her ducklings. A book, I'm sure will be read to him time and time again, it seems. He's already requested it twice, the little darling.This tale offers up a gentle, but still remarkably realistic portrayal of farm life. After reading these books, I now know they made the right choice of songs for the TV series based on these books. Just the lines "Fear is nature's warning" and "hunger here is never far away" sum up these books perfectly. A world where bad things happen, just as life happens. I do like to point out that although these books have dark themes, Miss Potter always protects her young audience from the more gruesome aspects of nature.This is a simple tale with a good message and good old fashioned family friendly entertainment. Miss Potter proves herself worthy of her reputation as a skilled children's writer.
Your average child in the early 1900's must have had considerably more advanced vocabulary expectations than your average child today. I'm always amazed by the complexity of these Potter stories compared to modern children's stories, although this one is slightly simpler than the others. This is one of my daughter's favorite Beatrix Potter stories. Of course. There is a sinister threat involved, and potential death, and destruction. That sort of thing always manages to hold her interest. Beware of foxes bearing hospitality. Not a bad lesson. I'm glad she likes the old school tales so much. There's something about them that really appeal and impact in a way a lot of modern storytelling doesn't--I think it's that they treat a child with respect for his or her intelligence and ability to process dark themes without being psychologically scarred.
What do You think about The Tale Of Jemima Puddle-Duck (2015)?
Jemima Puddle-Duck, a duck before her time, wants to hatch her own eggs. While her sister-in-law is quite happy to bypass such a rigorous job, Jemima is adamant...her eggs, her hatching. She leaves the safety of the farm to find a special nesting spot, but this liberated ducky runs into a foxy gentleman who is not quite the good samaritan as she believes him to be.Allen Atkinson is the illustrator for this edition of the Potter classic. Such a wonderful talent who died so young, his Peter Rabbit series is worth the bookstore hunt as his characters always ring true (yes, white ducks should wear blue bonnets).Book Season = Spring (ducklings)
—GoldGato
My family received this book as a gift from a family member who found it at a garage sale.I have very mixed feelings about this book.I have always adored Beatrix Potter. I find most of her work, tales and art, her to be very beautiful and inspirational. This story struck me as quite sad and a bit off featuring duck who keeps loosing her children before they are hatched and a conniving, trickster fox who plans to eat her. In the end the fox meets his end, Jamima finally hatches a few of her eggs and has ducklings. The best thing I can say for this book is that art is phenomenal as always with Potter’s work.
—Krista
** For the full review please check out www.read2review.com **This is the third and last of the Beatrix Potter books that I have selected to review for the site. This tale of the trusting Duck who just wants to bring up her own eggs is a touching story about trusting the wrong people. A don’t trust strangers story.I think that this version of the book is very accessible for anyone young or old who would like to learn from this story. I love the fact that the dogs go and save her from Mr Fox.I will always be a fan of the stories of Beatrix Potter. Each one holds a moral that can teach young children and I feel everyone can learn from them. The illustrations featured in this book and the others by Beatrix Potter are beautiful.I give The Tale Of Jemima Puddle-Duck 5/5 Read more here : http://read2review.com/our-reviews/ch...
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