PETER RABBIT & FRIENDS - The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse SHORTS
11 videos • 4,030 views • by Thom Goddard PETER RABBIT & FRIENDS shorts - Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse, PART 3: "Timmy's off to the big city." The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter and first published by Frederick Warne & Co. in December 1918. The tale is based on the Aesop fable, "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse", with details taken from Horace's Satires 2.6.79-117. It tells of a country mouse and a city mouse who visit each other in their respective homes. After sampling the other's way of life, both express a decided preference for their own. The book was critically well received. Plot summary: The country mouse, Timmy Willie, falls asleep in a hamper, and is carried with the vegetables to the city, where the mice, including Johnny Town-Mouse, make him welcome, but finding the cat frightening and the food strange, he returns by the hamper. Sometime later, Johnny Town-Mouse pays him a visit, but finding such things as cows and lawnmowers frightening, returns to the city himself. Cast: Niamh Cusack - Beatrix Potter (voice over) Alan Bennett - Timmie Willie Hugh Laurie - Johnny Town-Mouse Felicity Kendal - Hunca Munca Rik Mayall - Tom Thumb Enn Reitel - Cock Robin Sheila Steafel - Cook/Nurse #PeterRabbit #short #cartoon