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Most of her small books first appeared in the years before the First World War.","1866-07-28","1943-12-22","story",1906,"children's literature",true,"2026-10-22","The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher: A2 English Book PDF | FluencyRoad","Read Beatrix Potter's Mr. Jeremy Fisher in English: about 850 words, a five-minute story about a frog who goes fishing. Free PDF or EPUB.","Mr. Jeremy Fisher, a frog who lives at the edge of a pond, goes out in his lily-leaf boat to catch minnows for dinner with his friends. Nothing goes right: he catches a spiny stickleback instead, and then a huge trout grabs him in its mouth and dives. Luckily the trout hates the taste of his raincoat and spits him out, and Mr. Jeremy hops home and serves his guests something very different from fish.","This is one of the shortest books in the library, and one of the funniest. The estimated level is A2: the sentences are short and the story follows one fishing trip from start to finish. The fishing words (rod, line, float, bait) come one after another, so they are easy to picture even if they are new. Mr. Jeremy also says what he plans to do before he does it, which makes the will future easy to notice: \"I will get some worms and go fishing\". The names of his friends are jokes: Sir Isaac Newton is a newt, and the Alderman is a tortoise.",[24,25,26],"plans that go wrong","bad luck and good luck","friendship",[28,29,30,31,32],"Mr. Jeremy Fisher","Jack Sharp the stickleback","the trout","Sir Isaac Newton","Mr. Alderman Ptolemy Tortoise",[34,35,36],"I will get some worms and go fishing and catch a dish of minnows for my dinner","What a mercy that was not a pike!","But the trout was so displeased with the taste of the macintosh, that in less than half a minute it spat him out again","Once upon a time there was a frog called Mr. Jeremy Fisher; he lived in a little damp house amongst the buttercups at the edge of a pond. 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