The literary Lakes: Joining Beatrix Potter and her cast of adventurous animals By CLAIRE BATES Published: 11:04 EDT, 1 June 2012 | Updated: 11:57 EDT, 1 June 2012 ...

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Now those meadows, which inspired Potter to create her magical world of animal adventures, have been restored by The National Trust, and the creatures that one resided there have returned.

But the Beatrix Potter books are in a league of their own, because the animals feel completely real (or at least, real in their fully imagined, English-countryside-populated-by-talking-animals way).

Beatrix Potter’s world is comforting and cozy, but it is also rife with peril. Animals behave like animals: rats hunt kittens; foxes trick hens; and pigs live in constant fear of the butcher.

Beatrix began art lessons at 12, and decided early on that animals and plants would be her favourite subjects. In old age she stated that the key to her success was her thoroughness.

I grew up on a steady diet of Beatrix Potter’s illustrated tales, reading about the antics of Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny and even eating snacks off plates adorned with creatures from the ...

Beatrix Potter is making a posthumous comeback with the publication of an unseen story featuring an older Peter Rabbit. The much-loved children’s author died in 1943, leaving The Tale of Kitty ...

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I do like it. Very much. In the 1970s, I immersed myself in Potter’s books and read in A History of the Writings of Beatrix Potter, by Leslie Linder, about Kitty-in-Boots.

26 July 2016 Her anthropomorphic tales of Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle Duck and Squirrel Nutkin have made Beatrix Potter one of Britain’s best-loved authors, for children and adults alike.