"The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher" was published in French in 1940 as "Jérémie Pêche-à-la-Ligne", and in Dutch as "Jeremais de Hengelaar" in 1946. The tale was republished in Dutch in 1970 as "Het Verhaal van Jeremais Hengelaar" and was published in the Initial Teaching Alphabet in 1965. In 1984, the tale was again translated into French by M.A. James as "L’histoire de Monsieur Jérémie Peche-a-la-Ligne". In 1986 MacDonald wrote that Potter's books had become a "traditional part of childhood in most only English-speaking countries and in many of the countries into whose languages Potter's books have been translated".