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The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter. The story is about a hedgehog washerwoman called Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and her encounter with a human child named Lucie. The two deliver freshly laundered items to the little animals and birds of the forest. This version is published in the Audible Enhanced audiobook format and includes original illustrations synchronized with the narration.

In The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, a little girl named Lucie has lost three pocket handkerchiefs and a pinafore. Setting out to find them, she spots some fresh clean white cloth on the hillside. As she approaches the clean linens on the hill Lucie spies a door built into the side of the hill and hears someone singing a song about laundry behind it. Could the missing hankies be inside? The sixth of Beatrix Potter's 22 charming tales of animals in amusing situations, The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle has delighted children since its release in 1905.

The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle tells the tale of a hidden home high in the hills. It is discovered one day by a little girl called Lucie, who is in search of her missing pocket handkerchiefs. She knocks on the tiny door, and meets Mrs Tiggy-winkle who does all the washing and ironing for the neighbouring animals. Lucie spends a lovely day helping her, and it’s only right at the end of the day that she realises Mrs Tiggy-winkle is a hedgehog!

The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle tells the tale of a hidden home high in the hills. It is discovered one day by a little girl called Lucie, who is in search of her missing pocket handkerchiefs. She knocks on the tiny door, and meets Mrs Tiggy-winkle who does all the washing and ironing for the neighbouring animals. Lucie spends a lovely day helping her, and it’s only right at the end of the day that she realises Mrs Tiggy-winkle is a hedgehog!

Helen Beatrix Potter (1866 – 1943) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children’s books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life. Born into a privileged Unitarian family, Potter, along with her younger brother, Walter Bertram (1872–1918), grew up with few friends outside her large extended family. Her parents were artistic, interested in nature and enjoyed the countryside. As children, Beatrix and Bertram had numerous small animals as pets which they observed closely and drew endlessly. Summer holidays were spent in Scotland and in the English Lake District where Beatrix developed a love of the natural world which was the subject of her painting from an early age. Although she was provided with private art lessons, Potter preferred to develop her own style, particularly favouring watercolour. Along with her drawings of her animals, real and imagined, she illustrated insects, fossils, archeological artefacts, and fungi. In the 1890s her mycological illustrations and research on the reproduction of fungi spores generated interest from the scientific establishment. Following some success illustrating cards and booklets, Potter wrote and illustrated The Tale of Peter Rabbit publishing it first privately in 1901, and a year later as a small, three-colour illustrated book with Frederick Warne & Co. Potter published over twenty-three books; the best known are those written between 1902 and 1922. She died on 22 December 1943 at her home in Near Sawrey at age 77, leaving almost all her property to the National Trust. She is credited with preserving much of the land that now comprises the Lake District National Park. Potter’s books continue to sell throughout the world, in multiple languages. Her stories have been retold in song, film, ballet and animation.

Little Lucie Carr daughter of the Vicar of Newlands, is on a mission to find her lost pocket-handkin. Her mysterious journey took her up winding roads, steep hills and valleys to a little brown door in the rock. Who is that tiny lady singing "Lily-white and clean, oh! With little frills between …”? Is she the one who took Lucie’s white pocket-handkin? Or is this just another one of Little Lucie’s illusive dreams. The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy Winkle is the sixth story from the bestselling children book author, Beatrix Potter. Her book The Tale of Peter Rabbit published 1902 is one of the most read children’s book in history. The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy Winkle will warm your child’s heart, like it has done for many other. Purchase one for your child, as a gift for a friend, or for your grandchildren. Give them a gift that will help developed their brain and change their lives.

The advanced animating techniques used in The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends have resulted in a video experience Beatrix Potter herself would have appreciated. The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher will be the fifth and The Tale of Pigling Bland the sixth in the critically-acclaimed and hugely popular authorized TV series. Full color.