Beatrix Potter was born in 1866 to a weathly London family and died 1943. She was a lonely child who was educated by governesses and her only friends were her many animals. She sketched her animals and gave the sketches as gifts to friends and their children.
Tale of Two Bad Mice
Tale of Peter Rabbit
Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
She believed that books for children should be easy for little hands to hold therefore small in size, printed on sturdy paper and should have a color picture every time a page was turned. She paid to have her first book Peter Rabbit published and was surprised at how quickly it sold. Potter eventually wrote 23 books.
Today her stories are just as popular as they were in the early 1900's. Here are some of her books and their covers.
Tale of Two Bad Mice
Tale of Peter Rabbit
Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
Tale of Jeremy Fisher
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