Ds10yo has ASD and learning difficulties. He has many changeable obsessions, but he has had this one for the last fortnight and it is stumping me. He expects me to be able to magic up what he would like, and it is a challenge at times!
He would like a picture of Squirrel Nutkin from the CBeebies Peter Rabbit programme to colour in. It has to be the CBeebies Nutkin, not a generic squirrel and the Beatrix Potter illustrations will not do at all.
It sounds like an easy request to fulfill, but no. I have looked, I think, everywhere online. Plenty of Peter and Benjamin and Lily and even Peter’s sisters and also the enemy animals. But I can’t find a Nutkin anywhere. I have the colouring books from the films, I have the sticker books and the reading hooks from the CBeebies series and there is nothing I can adapt. I cannot draw for toffee.
The only other thing I can think of is that at some point there may have been a picture of Nutkin in the monthly Peter Rabbit magazine. If anyone has back copies, please please please would you look through them to see if there is one and let me know the issue number so that I can buy it, even if at a massive premium?
Here’s hoping.