Timmy Tiptoes says that he will be much thinner when he wakes up from hibernation. Goody worries that they will not be able to get the nuts out again because the hole in the tree is too small for them to pass through. The tree is hollow and the nuts fall to the bottom of it. When the hollow tree stumps are full, Timmy Tiptoes and Goody put some nuts in a hole that a woodpecker once made in a tree. Timmy Tiptoes and Goody gather up a large amount of nuts and hide them in several hollow tree stumps near their home. One day, Timmy Tiptoes announces to Goody that the nuts are ripe and that they need to gather a store of them for when they wake up from hibernation. He and his wife Goody live in a nest at the top of a tall tree. Timmy Tiptoes is a fat little gray squirrel.
Timmy Tiptoes and Goody put nuts in the woodpecker's hole.
An edition in the Initial Teaching Alphabet was published in 1965, The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes has been translated into other languages including Dutch, French, German and Spanish. She had never seen any of them in their natural habitat. This is often explained by the fact that Potter had only seen the North American animals depicted in the book in captivity and book illustrations. The illustrations to The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes are also generally considered not to be up to Potter's usual standard.
By the time that The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes was written, all of the children to whom Potter dedicated her early works had grown up and no other children had taken their places in her affections. It is widely seen as the work of someone who had grown tired of writing children's books and who had become out of touch with her child audience. Unfortunately, Timmy Tiptoes is too fat to get out of the small hole in the tree.Īlthough The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes sold well when it was first published, it is now generally considered to be one of Beatrix Potter's weaker stories. Timmy Tiptoes finds that the hollow tree is home to a friendly chipmunk named Chippy Hackee. As a punishment, Timmy Tiptoes is pushed into a small hole in a hollow tree. The book's title character and protagonist is a fat gray squirrel who is wrongly accused of stealing other squirrels' nuts. All of its characters are North American animals. The book was written primarily with the lucrative American market in mind. The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes is a children's fantasy story by the British author and illustrator Beatrix Potter. Front cover of a first edition of The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes from 1911.
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