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| 12/16/1901 |
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Beatrix Potter's First Peter Rabbit
On this day in 1901 Beatrix Potter published The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Having been turned down by a half-dozen publishers, Potter financed this first edition herself -- 250 copies with her own black and white illustrations, given away or sold at a half-penny each because, as she put it, "little rabbits cannot afford to spend 6 shillings." |
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A Victorian Naturalist: Beatrix Potter's Drawings from the Armitt Collection
by Eileen Jay, Mary Noble (Editor), Anne Stevenson Hobbs
illustrations |
Beatrix Potter to Harry Potter: Portraits of Children's Writers
by Julia Eccleshare, Anne Fine
biography |
Beatrix Potter: Baby Record Book
by Beatrice Potter
children, photography |
Beatrix Potter: The Story of the Creator of Peter Rabbit
by Elizabeth Buchan
biography |
Beatrix Potter: Writing in Code
by M. Daphne Kutzer, Jack Zipes
criticism and analysis |
That Naughty Rabbit: Beatrix Potter and Peter Rabbit
by Judy Taylor
biography |
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Ohio University: "Wired for Books" Project
Find illustrated stories, audio recordings, and multimedia presentations of Potter's works in English, French, German, and Japanese. Titles include:
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Cecily Parsely's Nursery Rhymes
The Story of Miss Moppet
The Tale of Johnny Town-mouse
The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher
The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan
The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes
The Tale of Two Bad Mice |  | Sherwood Elementary School
Find a small collection of photographs in a gallery titled "Beatrix Potter's Life in Pictures." Also offers a answers to frequently asked questions. For younger students. | | The Illustrators Project: Helen Beatrix Potter (1866-1943)
Offers a biography and and bibliography of works by and about the writer.
"Beatrix Potter feels she owed her inspiration to write to three things. First, her matter-of-fact ancestors. They were hardheaded, obstinate folk, generations of yeomen and weavers of Lancashire, England. Second, the fact that she spent much of her childhood in the Scottish highlands, with a highland's nurse who believed in witches and fairies. And third, her remarkably good memory. In her early days of writing she composed or tried to compose ballads, imitating Isaac Watts or describing Scottish scenery. Her verses would not scan, and she felt she could not write, so for a long time she gave up trying...." | |
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