Can Anyone Complete This...

[Stargazer]

Bobby Bushtail as you see has a happy family and every morn at half past nine he'd brush their tails until they shine.

This was a Ladybird book we had as children in the late forties and early fifties.
I have never seen this particular book since.

[pixie374]

Is it this?https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=bob+bushtail&tag=googhydr-21&index=stripbooks&hvadid=25763446976&hvpos=1t1&hvexid=&hvnetw=s&hvrand=15254363033115521108&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=e&hvdev=t&ref=pd_sl_ql79juhrr_e

[Jackdaw33]

...and when they went out in the sun
The farmer shot them, one by one.

[pixie374]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=bob+bushtail&tag=googhydr-21&index=stripbooks&hvadid=25763446976&hvpos=1t1&hvexid=&hvnetw=s&;hvrand=15254363033115521108&hvpohttps://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=bob+bushtail&tag=googhydr-21&index=stripbooks&hvadid=25763446976&hvpos=1t1&hvexid=&hvnetw=s&hvrand=15254363033115521108&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=e&;hvdev=t&ref=pd_sl_ql79juhrr_ene=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=e&hvdev=t&;ref=pd_sl_ql79juhrr_e

[Stargazer]

Thanks Pixie, one would assume this was the one but I see it is a new edition edition printed in 1972. I believe the rhyme inside is different and the one I remember was Bobbie Bushtail and not Bob. So maybe the author revised and rewrote it at some point. I would still like to trace the original rhyme though.

[pixie374]

Ebay?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2047675.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.X1972+bobbie+bushtail+ladybird+book.TRS0&_nkw=1972+bobbie+bushtail+ladybird+book&;_sacat=0

[pixie374]

It still "Bob" though... I had that one :-)

[Tilly2]

I don't remember Bob Bushtail. I can only remember Squirrel Nutkin.

[Mamyalynne]

//Bob Bushtail's adventure, story and illustrations by A.J. MacGregor ; verses by E.M. Coghlin. Loughborough : Ladybird Books Ltd., 1941, 1980. LADYBIRD COLLECTION--401/06
“This early Ladybird story is one I remember from childhood. It's the story of a family of squirrels - Bob gets lost in the snow, and is found curled up fast asleep in a hollow tree. The picture of Bob in the tree looking sadly out at the snowflakes is one I remember well”.//


Source

https://www.reading.ac.uk/special-collections/news/exhibitions/sc-exhibition-my-favourite-ladybird.aspx


Seems it always was Bob.

[hellywelly4]

Bobby Bushtail was a squirrel, and a naughty rascal too. Sometimes he was so untidy, mother didn't know what to do. If you google that it comes up with the actual words from the book. I can't copy it on my iPad as I don't know how to do it. I had the book when I was a child, it was lovely.

[Stargazer]

Thanks everyone. Mamyalynne's link led me to the book cover I remember dated from 1941. However these now range in price from around £18 to £140, Yes I did say £140! I still have not been able to "open" one of these to reread the actual verse as in the early version. The subsequent one with the snowflakes on the cover is a different verse.

[hellywelly4]

http://wwwsandralustre.blogspot.co.uk/2009/03/oopppssss.html

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