The Tale of Castle Cottage (2011) (edit title/settings)

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• Beatrix Potter: "is best known for her children's books, begining with The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1901) Miss Potter lives with her parents, Helen and Rupert Pitter, at Number Two Bolton Gardens, in South Kensington, London. She spends as much time as possible at Hill Top Parm, in the Lake District village of Near Sawrey. Mr. and Mrs. Jennings and their children live in the Hill Top farmhouse and manage the farm while Miss Potter is in London. Her Brother, Bertram Potter, occasionally visits Hill top.
• Will Heelis: A solicitor (lawyer) whom helped Miss Potter buy Hill Top Farm and other Lake District properties
• Hyacinth Badger: is in charge of the Brockery, a famous animal hostelry on Holly How , and holds the Badger Badge of Authority. She keeps the history of the creatures of Near and Far Sawrey.
• Bailey Badger: Brother to Hyacinth Badger. Bailey lives at Briar Bank, where he maintains an astonishing library. Thackeray, a well read guinea pig, lives there, too. Thorvaald, a teenaged dragon, frequently visits his bookish friends but spends much of his time on assignment for the Grand Assembly of Dragons.
• Professor Galileo Newton Owl, D.Phil., i: Is a tawny owl who conducts advanced studies in astronomy and applied natural history from his home in a hollow beech in Cuckoo Brow Wood.

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• “Bad news always tastes better if it is served along with dessert”

• “Walking cured a great many ills and ailments”

• “Food and consolation was something the women could understand”

• “For as you know, we <writers and readers> are entitled to see through walls and listen at keyholes and generally poke our noses into all sorts of odd and out-of-the-way places where real people cannot go - for example, down Alice's rabbit hole or through a trapdoor and under the floor of the Castle Farm barn.”

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Preceded by The Tale of Oat Cake Crag.

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1. Susan Wittig Albert (Author)

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• Library of Congress: PS3551.L2637T346 2011
• Dewey: 813.54

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• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Mystery
• Books › Literature & Fiction

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