The big book of bagpuss

Knit your very own bagpuss with our knitting pattern. The inspiration for bagpuss came from a czech book which featured a cat with live thoughts. You can still get your bagpuss knitting pattern in our february 2014 issue from our back issues website. Be reunited with an old friend in this magical big book of bagpuss. Twelve 15 minute programmes of animated puppets based around a legendary fluffly cat called bagpuss and created for the bbc by the masters of animated puppetry at the time. A statuette, and a lesson about how sizes are relative. The mice are ornaments on the mouse organ, gabriel and madeleine are just dolls. The programme was created by oliver postgate and peter firmin around 1973, following on from their earlier famous successes noggin the nog. The big book of bagpuss in artane dublin from scorrigan. Peter firmin created a great many creatures for childrens television including that old cloth sack, bagpuss.

Bagpuss sitting knitting pattern, pdf digital download. This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the bagpuss article. Bagpuss is a 70s childrens tv animated show about a big fat furry toy cat, who who would come alive with his friends to see what emily had brought them. The big book of bagpussoliver postgate, peter firmin. The big book of bagpuss by oliver postgate, peter firmin. Bagpuss the cat wakes up from his long dreamy sleep yawning. Now all the music they recorded for bagpuss alongside outtakes and alternate versions is getting the reissue it deserves, in a beautiful book. No matter what youre looking for or where you are in the world, our global marketplace of sellers can help you find unique and affordable options. Bagpuss remains an old favourite and much loved tv character. Colourful and cuddly,the finished cat is approx 8 inches long, 18 inches tall. Bagpuss in artane dublin peter firmin remembering bagpuss and dalek vs bagpuss for karen jack an autobiography by oliver postgate aspects of bagpuss abc copywriting. The little book of bagpuss is a small format gift book with details of bagpuss and his old friends and space for you to write about your new friends. Then bagpuss would start yawning again, and as he fell asleep the narrator would speak as the colour faded to sepia and they all became toys again. The big book of bagpuss,oliver postgate, peter firmin.

Although only episodes were made, it remains fondly remembered, and was frequently repeated in the. Once upon a time, not so long ago, there was a childrens tv show called bagpuss today, the muchloved pink and white striped turns 40, with four decades passing since the first episode aired on. Bagpuss explains how its ears fell off and it got stranded on a desert island and was rescued by mice who used its ears to escape the island. Join in the magic with bagpuss and friends as emily awakens her favourite saggy cloth cat from his sleepy slumber in these wonderful stories. Part of the complete bagpuss collection episode 09. The owner of the shop was a little girl named emily.

Looking for the big book of bagpuss oliver postgate hardback. They decide it may never have had ears, and give it a hat to wear instead. The creators of bagpuss, oliver postgate and peter firmin present the big book of bagpuss, a collection of all thirteen original stories from the muchloved tv series. Everyone remembers fondly the world of bagpuss the most important, the most beautiful, the most magical saggy old cloth cat in the whole.

The title character was a saggy, old cloth cat, baggy, and a bit loose at the seams. And professor yaffle is just a carved wooden bookend in the shape of a woodpecker. Bagpuss, the saggy old cloth cat regularly voted britains bestloved childrens television character, is. Visit musicmagpie for great deals and super savings with free delivery today. When my children were young, growing up in australia in the late 1970s, we did not have bagpuss on australian tv. Bagpuss was shot in the big barn at peters farm a dusty, mysterious but definitely magical place using a camera that dad had modified to shoot a. The programme changed from sepia to colour film, and the toys in the shop would come to life. We think everyone deseves the best possible care at the end of life. Bbc news entertainment bagpuss cream of television. Bagpuss in the sun by oliver postgate paperback, 1974. Founded in 1997, has become a leading book price comparison site.

Bagpuss, the saggy old cloth cat, baggy, and a bit loose at the seams, had an ancestor in the real world too. Each episode, the cats owner, emily, brings an object for bagpuss and his friends to figure out or repair in some way. Clangers return with free knitting pattern find out whats in our brand new knitting and crochet magazine on sale december. Inspired designs on tshirts, posters, stickers, home decor, and more by independent artists and designers from around the world. Bagpuss is a british childrens television series, made by peter firmin and oliver postgate through their company smallfilms. Bagpuss gave a big yawn, and settled down to sleep.

Click here to start a new topic please sign and date your posts by typing four tildes new to. He is more a figurine than actual book ends, i think. Original watercolour on catridge paper, measuring approx 11x10. The series of episodes was first broadcast from 12 february to 7 may 1974. Bagpuss was described in each programme as an old, saggy cloth cat, baggy, and a bit loose at the seams.

Hospices of hope is the leading palliative care charity in south eastern europe. In the early 70s john faulkner and i were asked to write the songs and music for a childrens tv series called bagpuss. Bagpuss gave a big yawn, and settled down to sleep and of course when bagpuss goes to sleep, all his friends go to sleep too the mice were ornaments on the mouseorgan gabriel and madeleine were just dolls and professor yaffle was a carved wooden bookend in the shape of a woodpecker. This show centers around a toy stuffed cat named bagpuss. Bagpuss is a british childrens television series, made by peter firmin and oliver postgate. As a number of its creations get set for a revival, we look at whether these shows can stop memories of that era being poisoned forever. Bagpuss simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The 2001 bagpuss annual is packed full of stories, things to make, puzzles and of course bagpuss and his friends. It started by looking through old sepia photographs. It was much bigger than a typical address book but poor quality and the lines to write details on were far too close together so although the book itself was big with large capital letters on each page to denote which letter of the alphabet you were on, the narrow space to write on meant you would end up with a completed address book, not much. This is not a forum for general discussion of the articles subject put new text under old text. Etsy is the home to thousands of handmade, vintage, and oneofakind products and gifts related to your search. Tottie was an adaptation of a book by rumer godden, and in tottie, as in bagpuss, dolls come alive, but here their lives are drenched in misery and anxiety, the sense that they are at the mercy of impersonal, distant powers the children who play with them, as capricious as any pagan god. Peter firmin, the man behind bagpuss and the clangers.

Everyone remembers fondly the world of bagpuss the most important, the most beautiful, the most magical saggy old cloth cat in the whole wide world. As the cocreator of the animated programmes bagpuss, the clangers, noggin the nog, pogles wood and ivor the engine, oliver postgate was one of. All orders are custom made and most ship worldwide within 24 hours. I would like some professor yaffle from bagpuss bookends. In the e arly 70s john faulkner and his cowriter sandra kerr were asked to write the songs and music for a childrens tv series called bagpuss. The series of episodes was first broadcast from 12 february 1974 to 7 may 1974 through their company smallfilms. This book starts off with the mice of the mouse organ being really bored. Although only episodes were made, it remains fondly remembered, and was frequently repeated in the uk. And when bagpuss goes to sleep, all his friends go to sleep too. Bagpuss and friends are brought a small elephant, with no ears, stuffed with straw. Smallfilms made a good deal of the most cherished tv of the 70s and 80s from ivor the engine to bagpuss and the clangers.

There was gabriel the toad, a rag doll called madeleine, and a wooden woodpecker which was a bookend something to stop a row of books falling over called professor yaffle. This book starts off with the mice of the mouse organ being really bored, because its raining and theres nothing to do so bagpuss tells them a story about a fieldmouse and his family. Welcome to the official home of bagpuss on facebook. Bagpuss tells the mice a story about a king who used his beautiful silver beard to make carpets. Peter firmin the most important, most beautiful, most magical saggy old cloth cat in the whole world. The shop owner was a young girl called emily, who left things shed found in there for repair. Bagpuss gave a big yawn and settled down to sleep and, of course, when bagpuss goes to sleep, all his friends go to sleep too. The page includes a history of the programme, story of the show, video intro, characters, images, dvds, tshirts and episode guide. If you think this proustian cleaving to the likes of the beloved bagpuss is cloying, prepare for worse. I suppose i would not have, as it was a short lived, but apparently much loved childrens program that ran a few years. Bagpuss, via the telegraph before this evening, i had never heard of bagpuss. Professor yaffle was created as the bookend who had access to facts.