Little Grey Rabbit makes lace
(Illustrator) Margaret Tempest Alison Uttley
Hardcover
(Collins, Jan. 1, 1950)
Little Grey Rabbit Books Alison Uttley used to tell stories to her little son as they walked through the fields and woods. The tales were always based on the country traditions and country folk she knew so well in her own childhood. When her son went away to school she missed these story-telling walks and decided instead to write down the tales so that he could read them in the holidays. She never told the same tale twice, so the first one she wrote was absolutely new. It was about a Little Grey Rabbit, a Hare and a Squirrel. Such delightful stories obviously had to have illustrations, and Margaret Tempest's pictures showed Little Grey Rabbit and friends just as Alison Uttley had always imagined them. And from these happy beginnings there has grown the whole series of these enchanting little books.