Fictional Squirrels

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, Squirrel Girl, Secret Squirrel, Squirrel Boy, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, Mr. Nutz, Minor comics by Herg, Ch'p, List of fictional squirrels, Scrat, Best Ed, The Nutty Squirrels, Screwy Squirrel, Scaredy Squirrel, Bannertail: The Story of Gray Squirrel, Sandy Cheeks, Bob the Squirrel, Rocky the Flying Squirrel, The Great Rupert, Perri, Pikku Orava. Excerpt: The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, and published by Frederick Warne & Co. in October 1911. Timmy Tiptoes is a squirrel believed a nut-thief by his fellows, and imprisoned by them in a hollow tree with the expectation that he will confess under confinement. Timmy is tended by Chippy Hackee, a friendly, mischievous chipmunk who has run away from his wife and is camping-out in the tree. Chippy urges the prisoner to eat the nuts stored in the tree, and Timmy does so but grows so fat he cannot escape the tree. He regains his freedom when a storm topples part of the tree. The tale contrasts the harmonious marriage of its titular character with the less than harmonious marriage of the chipmunk. The book sold well at release, but is now considered one of Potter's weakest productions. Potter never observed the tale's indigenous North American mammals in nature, and, as a result, her depictions are thought stiff and unnatural. Other elements in the story have come under fire: the rhymes, for example, reveal nothing about the characters nor do they provide an amusing game for the child reader in the manner of the rhymes in The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin. The storm in the finale is viewed as a weak plot device introduced solely to hurry the tale to its conclusion, and the marriage of the chipmunks has been described as "abrasive and shocking" and an impediment to the flow of the tale. The tale's ...