The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher

Publisher Marketing: ***Large Print, easy to read edition*** Jeremy Fisher is a frog who lives in a damp little house amongst the buttercups at the edge of a pond. His larder and back passage are "slippy-sloppy" with water, but he likes getting his feet wet; no one ever scolds and he never catches cold. One day, Jeremy finds it raining and decides to go fishing. Should he catch more than five minnows, he will invite his friends to dinner. He puts on a Macintosh and shiny Galoshes, takes his rod and basket, and sets off with "enormous hops" to the place where he keeps his lily-pad boat. He poles to a place he knows is good for minnows. Once there, he sits cross-legged on his lily-pad and arranges his tackle. He has "the dearest little red float." His rod is a stalk of grass and his line a horsehair. An hour passes without a nibble. He takes a break and lunches on a butterfly sandwich. A water beetle tweaks his toe causing him to withdraw his legs, and rats rustling about in the rushes force him to seek a safer location. He drops his line into the water and immediately has a bite. It is not a minnow but little Jack Sharp, a stickleback. The fish escapes but not before Jeremy pricks his fingers on Jack's spines. A shoal of little fishes come to the surface to laugh at Jeremy. Jeremy sucks his sore fingers, but a trout rises from the water and seizes him with a snap (Mr. Jeremy screams, "OW-OW-OW!!!"). The trout dives to the bottom, but finds the Macintosh tasteless and spits Jeremy out, swallowing only his goloshes. Jeremy bounces "up to the surface of the water, like a cork and the bubbles out of a soda water bottle," and swims to the pond's edge. He scrambles up the bank and hops home through the meadow, having lost his fishing equipment but quite sure he will never go fishing again. Review Citations: Wilson Children's Catalog 96 01/01/1996 pg. 725 (EAN 9780887080944, Hardcover) Wilson Children's Catalog 01/01/1991 pg. 695 (EAN 9780723234913, Mass Market Paperbound) Wilson Children's Catalog 96 01/01/1996 pg. 725 (EAN 9780723234913, Mass Market Paperbound) Wilson Children's Catalog 01/01/2001 pg. 678 (EAN 9780723234913, Mass Market Paperbound) Wilson Children's Catalog 01/01/1991 pg. 695 (EAN 9780723234661, Hardcover) Wilson Children's Catalog 96 01/01/1996 pg. 725 (EAN 9780723234661, Hardcover) Wilson Children's Catalog 01/01/2001 pg. 678 (EAN 9780723234661, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Potter, Beatrix Beatrix Potter was an English author, illustrator, and natural scientist. Her imaginative children's books feature many natural animals that can be found in the British countryside. She is credited with preserving much of the land that now comprises the Lake District National Park. Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit story is among the most popular children's stories worldwide.