The Tasseltip Tales 6 titles published
between 1940 and 1980
474,
The Tasseltip Tales was Ladybird's fifth
series which was made up of six titles. This was a small
series comprising of six books, all originally published
with dust-wrappers and full pictorial boards - the first
book, 'A Little Silk Apron'
was originally published in May 1947.
The first three books of the series were in fact all published
together in May 1947 - at a price of 2'6 Net the books
would have been considered quite expensive.
All six books were written by Dorothy
Richards and wonderfully illustrated by
Ernest A Aris.
A Little Silk Apron
- first published in 1947.
The books follow the woodland adventures of a very lively
and sometimes mad-looking rabbit called Tasseltip.
Tasseltip appeared again in the 1970's curiously released
under the 497
series which
contained popular titles such as 'The
Wise Robin', 'Ned
the Lonely Donkey' and 'Tiptoes
The Mischievous Kitten'.
The illustrations were copied from the original books
from series 474 and Sarah Cotton
re-wrote the stories; Like many reissued stories, these
didn't seem to capture the charm of the originals.
Tasseltip can be considered a direct descendant
of Benjamin Buntie Bertie Brown
who was created by Ernest Aris
in 1916 - his mother was the Widow
Bunnikin. The family adventures continue to
1947 when they appear in 'The
Browns of Brambledown' which was re-published
in 1989 as 'The Rabbits New
Home'. 1947 was also the year that Tasseltip
appeared in Ladybird series 474 looking extremely similar
to Benjamin Bumtie Bertie Brown.
Read Dudley Chinall's article:Tasseltip
link to Beatrix Potter
Books
in series 474 All entries below describe the first
edition of each title.
Click on a title for more info.
It is known that two of the Tasseltip tales were also
printed in French, The Little
Silk Apron and Mr
Mole's Housewarming - however we recently
discovered an entry in the British Library Integrated
Catalogue for a title Une Histoire
de Jeannot Lapin -read more about this by
clicking it's link below.
