The Tailor Of Gloucester

Book • 1901

A Christmas tale about a poor tailor who receives help from grateful mice to finish a waistcoat for the mayor's wedding.

Mentioned by

Mentioned by

Michael Rosen

in relation to a cat he had growing up, named Simpkin, which is the name of a character in the book.

Mentioned as one of the two new books Beatrix Potter published the year after “Peter Rabbit”.

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