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By 1918, when this story appeared, she was living and farming in the Lake District, and she had come to prefer country life to the city of London where she grew up.","1866-07-28","1943-12-22","story",1918,"children's literature",true,"2026-10-22","The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse: A2 English Book PDF | FluencyRoad","Read Beatrix Potter's town mouse and country mouse story in English: about 1,300 words with lots of dialogue. Free PDF or EPUB.","Timmy Willie, a country mouse, falls asleep in a basket of vegetables and wakes up in a town house. Johnny Town-mouse and his friends welcome him to their dinner party, but the noise, the rich food and the cat make Timmy Willie ill, so he goes home in the same basket. In spring Johnny visits the country, but he finds it too quiet and goes back to town. Each mouse is happiest in his own home.","This is Beatrix Potter's version of Aesop's old fable of the town mouse and the country mouse, and the book is dedicated to Aesop. The estimated level is A2. Much of the story is a conversation between two friends who describe their homes, so it is full of useful everyday language: what you eat, where you sleep, what you do when it rains. At the end, the lesson is given in one simple sentence. A few words are old-fashioned British English, such as hamper (a big basket) and fender (a low metal frame in front of a fireplace).",[24,25,26],"town and country","friendship","everyone has a different idea of home",[28,29,30,31,32],"Timmy Willie","Johnny Town-mouse","the cook","Sarah, the maid","the cat",[34,35,36],"Never mind, they don't belong to us","I am sure you will never want to live in town again","One place suits one person, another place suits another person.","Johnny Town-mouse was born in a cupboard. Timmy Willie was born in a garden. 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