Beatrix potter illustrations6/13/2023 ![]() ![]() This kitty and doggie gave way too much credit and lost it all.Ī mouse with a cleaning fetish and many uninvited guests. McGregor is such a goof trying to catch the bunnies.Īnother favorite. Jemima the puddle-duck is a silly neurotic and needs psychoanalysis and to stay away from sexi foxes. Kittens and duckies should not wear clothes. This one is my favorite :)įroggy Jeremy will never go fishing again. Hedgehogs are the most polite of housekeepers.Ī kitty, a doggie and a magpie make for a crazy tea party. Sweet little mice and a naughty repentant kitty.īenjamin you are as cute as your cousin Peter Rabbit. Poor silly Squirrel Nuttkin that lost half his tail. Oh dear Peter Rabbit- I want to squeeze you and your sisters oh so tight. I was pleased to revisit these lovely stories with beautiful illustrations and I will simply write an impressionistic sentence or two about each one. They hold a very special place in my heart as they represent comfort, bonding and a warm feeling of contentment. Her stories have been retold in various formats, including a ballet, films, and in animation.Īs a young boy I had the whole set of these books and almost every night from the ages of three to six I would choose one and mama or papa or auntie would read this to me until the age of four and a half or so when I would read it to them. Potter's books continue to sell well throughout the world, in multiple languages. Potter died in 1943 and left almost all of her property to The National Trust in order to preserve the beauty of the Lake District as she had known it, protecting it from developers. She became a sheep breeder and farmer while continuing to write and illustrate children's books. In her forties, she married a local solicitor, William Heelis. ![]() Potter eventually published 24 children's books, the most recent being The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots (2016), and having become financially independent of her parents, was able to buy a farm in the Lake District, which she extended with other purchases over time. In her thirties, Potter published the highly successful children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit and became secretly engaged to her publisher, Norman Warne, causing a breach with her parents, who disapproved of his social status. Because she was a woman, her parents discouraged intellectual development, but her study and paintings of fungi led her to be widely respected in the field of mycology. She had numerous pets, and through holidays in Scotland and the Lake District, developed a love of landscape, flora, and fauna, all of which she closely observed and painted. Helen Beatrix Potter was an English author, illustrator, mycologist, and conservationist who is best known for her children's books, which featured animal characters such as Peter Rabbit.īorn into a wealthy household, Potter was educated by governesses and grew up isolated from other children. ![]()
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