DESCRIPTION
Tiptoes Lightly 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. Hauling the table and chairs up to Tiptoes' oak tree also presents a host of unexpected difficulties. Finally, at a surprise birthday party arranged by Jemima Mouse, Tiptoes receives her beautiful presents.
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 them 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 Reg Down. The stories are humorous and sanguine. They are innocent and magical tales suitable for reading to young children or for any proficient reader to enjoy.
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