The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck

I love the illustrations in this book. They almost take you there. I think it is a lovely story about a sweet duck that just wanted to have her eggs hatch. It is a bit sad how it ends, but it's still a great story.

Jemima loves her unhatched eggs, but she does lack the common sense to protect them against the fox. I thought that this story would have a happier ending, but I should have known that Potter tends to show us the reality instead of disillusioning us with "fairy tales," even though her stories may be classified as such since the animals are anthropomorphic.

Jemima Puddle-Duck is yearning to set her own eggs. She leaves the haven of the farm to find a nesting spot where they won't take her eggs and give them to the hen to hatch. Danger ensues.

When Beatrix Potter decides to write a suspenseful tale, she is very good at it! This is one of my favorites.

This was a lovely story. I read it again after finding it in the loft.
The illustrations in the book are fantastic, they have so much depth but the writing itself was brilliant too. There was no bad grammar. I hate the 'Charlie and Lola' series that encourages bad grammar because it is perceived as cute. The grammar in this is good and it also has a large vocabulary.
The story itself is good. I felt myself wanting to read on and find out what happened next because it wasn't very predictable, but when Jemima mentioned a handsome man with whiskers and in the picture was a fox, I thought 'Oh no!'. I thought the fairytale happy ending might happen, but then it didn't. It had a bit of Grimm's fairytales evilness to it. However, after the fox show more had been caught I thought the bit after was a bit unnecessary.
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Yay for Project Gutenberg. Really, though, these stories by Potter can get rather intense. Jemima is an awfully stupid duck, though. One other thing - where's the drake?

Best of the illustrations in the Peter Rabbit series, but the book seemed incomplete, like it was missing a huge chunk (seriously, it's about a a fox and a goose, where is the conflict?).

This is a good example of modern fantasy because while ducks may wander off for a place to sleep,
or to hatch their eggs, the duck may not actually converse
with a fox who wears a coat and reads the newspaper.
A fox in turn will not be reading a newspaper.
Jemima is a round character, and is also the protagonist - she is the main character
that develops from being naive to being more aware of strangers and situations that may harm her.