Ginger and Pickles (a terrier and a ginger cat) kept a very popular shop.

Their customers loved to buy their provisions there, but they were less keen to pay for them and ran up a great deal of credit, making poor Ginger and Pickles lives very difficult indeed.

Beatrix Potter is regarded as one of the world's best-loved children's authors of all time. From her first book, , published by Frederick Warne in 1902, she went on to create a series of stories based around animal characters including , , , and .