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At Home with Beatrix Potter: The Creator of Peter Rabbit [SCM]

by Susan Denyer Author

The creator of Peter Rabbit, Samuel Whiskers, and Jemima Puddle-Duck, Beatrix Potter (1866-1942) is one of the best-loved children's book authors of all time. Yet few in America are aware of the role she played in protecting some of England's most beautiful landscapes and in designing romantic interiors and a lovely garden at Hill Top, her beloved Lake District farmhouse. Taking the reader through her picturesque house and the breathtaking scenery around it that inspired many of her famous stories, this charming book is the first to look at the intimate connection between the English countryside and Potter's work. Her own exquisite sketches and watercolors, as well as personal ephemera, appear alongside specially commissioned full-color photographs, revealing a home filled with treasured old furniture and beautiful objects and celebrating an artist-storyteller whose legacy as a conservationist at last receives the attention it deserves.

Additional Details

Resource Type
Book
ISBN
0810921065
Print Status
In Print
Chapters
6
Pages
144
Suggested Grades
6th - 12th
Geographical Setting
England
Historical Setting
1866 - 1947
Publisher
Harry N. Abrams
Copyright
2004

Chapters

  • 1 Family and Holiday Homes
  • 2 Furnishing Hill Top
  • 3 A Tour of Hill Top
  • 4 Hill Top Garden
  • 5 Sawrey Tales
  • 6 Farming Life

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