The Complete Tales
The original and authorized edition
This deluxe volume brings all of Beatrix Potter's twenty-three Peter Rabbit tales and verses together in one book. The texts are complete and unabridged, and all the original illustrations, both colour and black and white, are included. The stories are arranged in the order in which they were first published to enable them to be read in the proper sequence for, although each story stands on its own, several are linked together by events and characters.Beatrix Potter's tales were often connected with real places, people or animals so each story has a brief introductory note about its history. The volume also includes four other works by Beatrix Potter which for one reason or another remained unpublished in her lifetime but show new facets of her talent as an illustrator and storyteller.The world of Beatrix Potter, presented here in its entirety, is as appealing now as when it was first created over one hundred years ago.
About the Author
(From book flap)
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. She worked with the National Trust, the organization dedicated to the preservation of places of historic interest or natural beauty in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. As a result of her efforts much Lake District land remains in the care of the National Trust to this day.Her little books have never lost their popularity and still sell in their millions. The pleasures of these timeless tales, which have been translated into more than thirty-five languages, continue to be enjoyed by children all over the world.Age Rating: 3-12+ / Preschool - 2+ / Lexile Measure 610L-1040LPrinted in China (ISBN 978-0-72325-804-9)