Elizabeth Taylor's Nibbles and Me

In 1946, Elizabeth Taylor -- then fourteen and a major star at MGM -- published a book about her pet chipmunk, Nibbles. With wit, charm, and remarkable skill, she related the adventures and mishaps of her high-spirited friend. She and Nibbles were virtually inseparable during the shooting of National Velvet and other films; in fact the chipmunk almost got to appear in Courage of Lassie -- but he was so well behaved that he didn't look real, and his scene was cut! Recounted here are such stories as the happiest birthday of her life, when she was given King Charles, the horse who was called The Pi in National Velvet, because only Elizabeth could ride him.

Elizabeth Taylor

Contents A Note to the New Edition Publisher's Note

• Before Nibbles
• Introduction to Nibbles
• Nibbles as He Was -- and Is
• How Nibbles Came to Have His First Bubble Bath
• Into a Nest of Snakes
• I Do a Trapeze Act out My Window
• His First and Last Appearance in Pictures
• Concerning His First Train Journey
• Concerning Christmas
• Concerning, Among Other Things, My Most Wonderful Birthday
• How We Journey Forth into One of Nibble's Scariest Adventures
• Of Our Arrival and What Was Almost a Sorry End
• I Make a Heartbreaking Decision and Nibbles Makes His Choice
• V-J Day in Chicago
• The Climax
• The End