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The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle

by Beatrix Potter (1866–1943)

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  • Reading level: 6th grade

"The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle" by Beatrix Potter is a children's book published in October 1905. When a little girl named Lucie loses her handkerchiefs and pinafore, her search leads her up a hillside to a mysterious door. Behind it lives Mrs. Tiggy-winkle, a hedgehog washerwoman who runs a laundry service for the woodland creatures. Together they deliver freshly cleaned clothes to animal neighbors, but the encounter ends with an ambiguous twist that leaves readers wondering what was real and what was dream.

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THE TALE OF
MRS. TIGGY-WINKLE

BY
BEATRIX POTTER

Author of
"The Tale of Peter Rabbit", &c.

1905

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This free edition of The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle by Beatrix Potter comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #12103, released 2004-04-01. It is in the public domain in the United States, so you can read it here in full at no cost, on any phone, tablet or computer. Genre: Children & Young Adult Reading, British Literature.

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