The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
by Beatrix Potter
English • Children's Classic • Published 1903 • Free to stream
Squirrel Nutkin travels to Owl Island to gather nuts, but his rude riddles to Old Brown the owl lead to serious trouble. A story of wit, cheek, and consequences. Stream it free, narrated by Libby — natural AI voice, no account needed.
About the book: The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin originated in a story and picture letter that Beatrix Potter sent to Norah Moore, the daughter of her former governess, Annie Carter Moore. In November 1902, Potter gave her publisher Norman Warne a version of her squirrel book, and he encouraged her to continue the squirrel drawings. The children's book was written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter and first published by Frederick Warne & Co. in August 1903. The book followed Potter's hugely successful The Tale of Peter Rabbit, and was an instant hit. The now-familiar endpapers of the Peter Rabbit series were introduced in the book.
The story is about an impertinent red squirrel named Nutkin and his narrow escape from an owl called Old Brown. The book matters as one commentator has likened Squirrel Nutkin's impertinent behaviour to that of the rebellious working-class of Potter's own day, and another commentator has noted the tale's similarities to pourquoi tales and folk tales in its explanations of Squirrel Nutkin's short tail and characteristics of squirrel behaviour. An abbreviated version of the tale appeared as a segment in the 1971 ballet film, The Tales of Beatrix Potter.
The background illustrations were modelled on Derwentwater and St. Herbert's Island in the Lake District.
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