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Beatrix Potter

About 

Beatrix has created some of the best-loved characters in children's literature

Beatrix Potter was born in London in 1866. During her rather lonely childhood and later, as a young woman, she studied art and natural history. She acquired her love and knowledge of the countryside during family holidays, at first in Scotland and then in the Lake District. She started her career as children's author and illustrator in 1901 when she was thirty-five. In the years before the First World War, demand for her work was so great that she was publishing an average of two new stories a year. As she became financially independent, she was able to buy some land in the Lake District and in 1913, on her marriage to solicitor William Heelis, she moved to live there permanently. For the last thirty years of her life, writing and illustrating gave place to a second career as a sheep farmer and countryside conservationist.

Her little books never lost their popularity however and today they sell in their millions, translated into numerous languages, and the pleasures of those timeless tales continue to be enjoyed by children all over the world.

Titles by this author

Join Peter Rabbit and his friends in the burrow with this read-and-play boxset containing eight...

A brand new seasonal title in the Peter Rabbit Tales series that every generation of...

Join Peter Rabbit as he searches for his toy bunny in this sweet lift-the-flap bedtime...

Push the button on every page of this Peter Rabbit story book to hear the sounds of...

Make Storytime The Best Time with Peter Rabbit Classic My Busy Book

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Celebrate Easter with Peter Rabbit!
Help Peter find all his friends' eggs in this...

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