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geenag90's review
5.0
One of my favourite Beatrix Potter tales. A perfect little read for this time of year.
danileighta's review
4.0
Listen to this in audiobook! It's a quicky and the reader is a master of voices. The tailor's voice is just incredible, as she makes all the grumbly, lost in thought noises you might expect from an old man who has spent much of his time alone. The voices of the mice and the kitty cat are really fun, as well. This is only a one disc audiobook, but there is music made for the book that is really fun and Celtic that makes up the other tracks. Give it a listen with your little one and have a dance party afterward!
natiperleggere's review
challenging
hopeful
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
melcanread's review
5.0
The Tailor of Gloucester is one of those stories that I grew up surrounded by, because of the fact that I am a Gloucester girlie. I remember watching the World of Peter Rabbit and Friends TV show when I was a kid, and the Tailor of Gloucester was always the episode I gravitated the most towards.
The book itself is the epitome of Beatrix Potter whimsy, down to Simpkins' disdain for the Tailor and the Tailor's decision to let the mice out of their prisons. Her art, as always, is stunning, and is exactly how the city looks to this day (though, the kitchen the Tailor rented is now the Beatrix Potter shop in Gloucester.)
It was interesting to me how Potter put more emphasis on the Tailor rather than the mice, choosing to tell the story more from the Tailor's perspective, with honourable mentions to Simpkin's perspective, more so than the mice's perspective. This is in stark contrast to the TV adaptation, where you see more of the mice than you do the Tailor. This, I think, gives more voice to the original story, rather than her version of it. While we do, of course, see the mice at work, we're mostly following the Tailor and Simpkin, which does add to the magic of the coat being completed by an anonymous force rather than the mice.
Potter has a magical way of telling dark fairy tales, in a similar fashion to the Brothers Grimm and authors of old, and I think that's one of the things I love the most about her. She makes no attempt to hide the natural world from her stories, despite their childish and whimsical nature. Reminding you at every turn that it doesn't matter how many animals she writes about, they are just that: animals.
Overall, this is one of my all-time favourite Beatrix Potter tales, and a go-to comfort read.
The book itself is the epitome of Beatrix Potter whimsy, down to Simpkins' disdain for the Tailor and the Tailor's decision to let the mice out of their prisons. Her art, as always, is stunning, and is exactly how the city looks to this day (though, the kitchen the Tailor rented is now the Beatrix Potter shop in Gloucester.)
It was interesting to me how Potter put more emphasis on the Tailor rather than the mice, choosing to tell the story more from the Tailor's perspective, with honourable mentions to Simpkin's perspective, more so than the mice's perspective. This is in stark contrast to the TV adaptation, where you see more of the mice than you do the Tailor. This, I think, gives more voice to the original story, rather than her version of it. While we do, of course, see the mice at work, we're mostly following the Tailor and Simpkin, which does add to the magic of the coat being completed by an anonymous force rather than the mice.
Potter has a magical way of telling dark fairy tales, in a similar fashion to the Brothers Grimm and authors of old, and I think that's one of the things I love the most about her. She makes no attempt to hide the natural world from her stories, despite their childish and whimsical nature. Reminding you at every turn that it doesn't matter how many animals she writes about, they are just that: animals.
Overall, this is one of my all-time favourite Beatrix Potter tales, and a go-to comfort read.
pasarmalam's review
3.0
I wish i have a cat like Simpkin that i could ask to buy groceries and make me tea every morning
michidoc's review
4.0
I found this little book in a flea market years ago, published like in the good old Miss Potter's times. It is a lovely, sweet Christmas tale everyone should read!
cimorene1558's review
5.0
One of my favourite books in the whole world. My grandmother, mother or aunt (depending on where and with whom I'm celebrating) has read it aloud every Christmas for as long as I can remember. This year I got to read it aloud at a historic house, which was the fulfillment of a minor sort of dream. It bothers me that I can't professionally read aloud many of the books I adored having read to me as a child, because they're mostly vastly too long, but hooray, I managed to find an occasion for this one!
lgpiper's review against another edition
4.0
My spouse came home from a week in New Hampshire "worn to a raveling". Now, from whence comes that phrase? Well, Google says it's from The Tailor of Gloucester, so naturally, we had to hunt through our mouldering collection of Beatrix Potter books to read it. And so we have.
Basically it's the tale of an old guy with spectacles and crooked fingers—kinda like me—who must prepare a waistcoat for the Mayor's Christmas Day wedding. He gets all the cloth cut and set out, but he has "no more twist", something needed for button holes. Then, because he is worn to a raveling, he gets sick. So what happens? Well read it yourself. It's a rather short, but GoodRead, after all, it has a cat and many sweet little mice in it.
Basically it's the tale of an old guy with spectacles and crooked fingers—kinda like me—who must prepare a waistcoat for the Mayor's Christmas Day wedding. He gets all the cloth cut and set out, but he has "no more twist", something needed for button holes. Then, because he is worn to a raveling, he gets sick. So what happens? Well read it yourself. It's a rather short, but GoodRead, after all, it has a cat and many sweet little mice in it.