The illustrations encompass Beatrix’s simple storytelling prose on every page, and the two work in concert together (Taylor, Whalley, Hobbs & Battrick, 1987). The intended audience for this book are grades K-6. This picture book is illustrated in beautiful watercolor pastel paints by Beatrix Potter. Potter’s illustrations, although seemingly simple, appeal on two levels: the detailed and the scientific as well as the magical and imaginative (Boultbee, 1971). After that was done, the two parted ways, that is when Lucie noticed that Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle as she delivered the clean laundry to the animals. After the two shared a cup of tea, Lucie followed Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle washes include Peter Rabbits’ shrunken blue jacket and a red tailcoat with no tail belonging to Squirrel Nutkin, among others. Tiggy-Winkle’s dwelling, Lucie finds her lost items, after hearing about all of the other laundry items that Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle is a hedgehog who is dressed in human clothes.

Lucie’s journey continues as she ventures away from the farm, looking for her lost items. Lucie goes on a journey throughout the farm asking all of the farm animals if they have seen her lost items. Tiggy-Winkle begins with a little girl named Lucie, who loses her pocket- handkins and pinny.

Little miss tiggy winkle