After Potter's death in 1943, licences were issued to various firms to produce the Potter characters. Potter responded with a series of miniature letters on the theme as if from Jeremy and his pals. Following the tale's publication, a child fan wrote Potter suggesting Jeremy find a wife. Potter's tale pays homage to the leisurely summers her father and his companions passed sport fishing at rented country estates in Scotland. He swims for shore, decides he will not go fishing again, and hops home. He encounters all sorts of setbacks to his goal, and escapes a large trout who tries to swallow him. He plans to invite his friends for dinner if he catches more than five minnows. One rainy day he collects worms for fishing, and sets off across the pond on his lily-pad boat. Jeremy Fisher is a frog who lives in a "slippy-sloppy" house at the edge of a pond. The tale reflects her love for the Lake District and her admiration for children's illustrator Randolph Caldecott. She revised it in 1906, and moved its setting from the River Tay to the English Lake District. Jeremy's origin lies in a letter she wrote to a child in 1893. It was published by Frederick Warne & Co. Jeremy Fisher is a children's book, written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter.
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