The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse
 First edition cover | |
| Author | Beatrix Potter |
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| Illustrator | Beatrix Potter |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's literature |
| Publisher | Frederick Warne & Co. |
Publication date | December 1918 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (originally hardcover, but since printed in softcover as well) |
| Preceded by | Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes |
| Followed by | Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes |
| Text | The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse at Wikisource |
The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter and first published by Frederick Warne & Co. In December 1918. The tale is based on the Aesop fable, "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse", with details taken from Horace's Satires 2.6.79-117. It tells of a country mouse and a city mouse who visit each other in their respective homes. After sampling the other's way of life, both express a decided preference for their own. The book was critically well received. The Johnny Town-Mouse character appeared in a 1971 ballet film, and the tale has been adapted to a BBC television animated series.
Plot summary
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The country mouse, Timmy Willie, falls asleep in a hamper, and is carried with the vegetables to the city, where the mice, including Johnny Town-Mouse, make him welcome, but finding the cat frightening and the food strange, he returns by the hamper. Sometime later, Johnny Town-Mouse pays him a visit, but finding such things as cows and lawnmowers frightening, returns to the city himself.
Adaptions
[edit]An animated adaptation of the story, shown alongside The Tale of Two Bad Mice, was featured on The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends in 1995 with Johnny Town-Mouse voiced by British actor Hugh Laurie.
References
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- Works cited
- Lear, Linda (2007), Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature, New York: St. Martin's Griffin, ISBN 0-312-37796-7
- MacDonald, Ruth K. (1986), Beatrix Potter, Boston: Twayne Publishers, ISBN 0-8057-6917-X
- Taylor, Judy; Whalley, Joyce Irene; Hobbs, Anne Stevenson; Battrick, Elizabeth M. (1987), Beatrix Potter 1866–1943: The Artist and Her World, F. Warne & Co. and The National Trust, ISBN 0-7232-3561-9
- Bibliography
- Mackey, Margaret (2002). Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit: A Children's Classic at 100. Lanham, Maryland, and London: The Children's Literature Association and The Scarecrow Press, Inc. ISBN 0-8108-4197-5.
External links
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The full text of The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse at Wikisource
Media related to The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse at Wikimedia Commons- An omnibus of Potter's children's tales at Standard Ebooks
- The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse at Project Gutenberg
The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse public domain audiobook at LibriVox
