Tiptoes Lightly lives in an acorn high in the branches of a
Great Oak Tree. Her tiny house has no furniture-except for two
downy feathers Lucy the Goose gave her to sleep on. Her friends,
Pine Cone and Pepper Pot the gnomes, decide to make her a birthday
present of one table and three chairs. They search the forest for
the perfect branch and enlist the help of forest folk to make the
furniture: Ompliant the Elephant to carry the wood, Carpenter Ants
to shape the branch and Spinalot the Spider to spin the webbing for
the chairs. Unfortunately, Pepper Pot sits down on one of the
chairs while the spider web is still fresh and becomes hopelessly
flyed. When, at last, he is freed Pine Cone and Pepper Pot row down
Running River to collect wax from the bees to finish the table and
chairs. Hauling the table and chairs up the Tiptoes' oak tree
presents a host of unexpected difficulties. Finally, at a surprise
birthday party arranged by Jemima Mouse, Tiptoes receives her
beautiful presents. At the request of the Mouse children she tells
the tale of how she was born from Mother Wind and Father Sun.
The book is rounded out with a short separate story, "'The Tale
of None'," in which little None (a ladybug with no spots, none at
all ) goes to India, America and Africa to find her spots. These
she receives from a spotted cow, a freckled girl and the king of
spottiness himself, the leopard.
"'The Magic Knot and other tangles '" is lavishly illustrated by
the artist-author. The stories are humorous and sanguine. They are
innocent and magical tales suitable for reading to young children
or for young children to read.
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