Beatrix

Jeanette Winter; Illustrated by the author

Frances Foster Books

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Beatrix Potter's childhood was characterized by a distinctly Victorian mixture of privilege and neglect. Her parents were distant and distracted, so she was left largely to her own devices. She found companionship in nature, in the small animals she met in the family's garden and in the countryside on summer visits. And she found happiness in drawing and writing stories about her animal friends, later the inspiration for The Tale of Peter Rabbit and her twenty-two other books.

Beatrix Potter's own words, taken from her letters and journals, are incorporated in Jeanette Winter’s book -- just slightly larger than Beatrix Potter’s little books -- and this portrait pays a glowing tribute to the grande dame of children’s literature.

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"Potter, who looks mournfully out from the cover, led a lonely life, but Winter shows how her interest in animals, science, and drawing filled her time and shaped her into the author-illustrator she became....the book successfully conveys Potter's life and personality." --Booklist

"Just as [Potter's] works have helped to connect generations of children to the natural one, so will this diminutive keepsake bring her private one into focus." --Kirkus Reviews

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Jeanette Winter; Illustrated by the author

Jeanette Winter is the author and/or illustrator of many notable books for children, including Emily Dickinson’s Letters to the World, a Parents’ Choice Silver Honor Book, and My Baby. She lives in New York City.

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Beatrix
Jeanette Winter; Illustrated by the author

Hardcover

Hardcover
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Frances Foster Books
March 2003
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374306557
ISBN10: 0374306559
Picture Book Nonfiction
5 1/2 x 6 inches, 64 pages, Full-color pictures throughout, Author’s note, bibliography
Age Range: 3 to 6
Grade Range: p to 1
$15.00
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