- Paperback: 24 pages
- Publisher: Medici Society; First Edition edition (1962)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0855030194
- ISBN-13: 978-0855030193
- Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 18.3 x 0.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 451,401 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Format:Paperback
This is such a sweet little tale about the cutest little animals ever. The illustrations are adorable and the story is all about a frog trying to make friends with her neighbours when she moves into a new home. Children will love this book and adults will delight in sharing it with them.
Format:Paperback
I read this book when i was about eight years old and i searched for it high and low and couldn't find it anywhere. i had trouble finding it on the net and here it is!! If you havent read it then you should, it's sweet and brilliantly written.
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It just rolls off the tongue...
16 Mar 2009
Format:Paperback
My wife received a copy of this wonderful little story as a child. I picked it up one night to read it to my son and it has become my favorite story to read aloud. The story literally rolls off the tongue so effortlessly that your child will expect every story to sound this good. It reminds me of my favorite stories narated to me as a child with all the artistic style of the theater (and, isn't that the experience we'd like to give our children everytime?).
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
"PARTY ON' with a Jeremy Fisher "Wanna-Be" ?
17 Jan 2007
Format:Paperback
"Kingcup Cottage" - authored by Racey Helps - (Amazon might ask for a "real" name!) is thoroughly British. Of course there are many hoping to benefit from the long-ago success of Beatrix Potter. Examples include the "Uncle Wiggily" gamesman, Howard Garis, and Jill Baker & Lynn Bywater Ferris who collaborated on "Basil of Bywater Hollow" (0805002585) after meeting through work for Sunrise Publications, now part of Hallmark (Cards). The last two are incorrectly described as Britishers by Publisher's Weekly.
Francesca of Kingcup Cottage, might have been an invention of Beatrix Potter. The cottage sags "oozily among tree roots" and froggy Francesca is renting it on her uncle's advice: "if the roof leaks, so much the better." She decides to invite the neighborhood to a birthday party for herself but no one comes. A hedgehog helpfully suggests that the house is too watery to attract many guests. Francesca then becomes hostess at a second party in a drier location where the rooms are not "puddly" and happily enjoys great success.
Beatrix Potter and Racey Helps constitute most of my experience with anthropomorphic tales for toddlers. It seems to this mother/grandmother reviewer that dressing animals and 'dreaming up' lives for them is appealing to most small children. The pictures are looked at frequently, but the stories imagined by the children will sometimes live on longer than those of the original authors. This story is especially appropriate during this unusually 'watery' winter in the mid-west.
Francesca of Kingcup Cottage, might have been an invention of Beatrix Potter. The cottage sags "oozily among tree roots" and froggy Francesca is renting it on her uncle's advice: "if the roof leaks, so much the better." She decides to invite the neighborhood to a birthday party for herself but no one comes. A hedgehog helpfully suggests that the house is too watery to attract many guests. Francesca then becomes hostess at a second party in a drier location where the rooms are not "puddly" and happily enjoys great success.
Beatrix Potter and Racey Helps constitute most of my experience with anthropomorphic tales for toddlers. It seems to this mother/grandmother reviewer that dressing animals and 'dreaming up' lives for them is appealing to most small children. The pictures are looked at frequently, but the stories imagined by the children will sometimes live on longer than those of the original authors. This story is especially appropriate during this unusually 'watery' winter in the mid-west.
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