Beatrix Books

This book is an interesting one to share with young people. It's neither biography nor autobiography, per se... Beatrix Potter's own words (taken from her letters and journals) are combined with text and illustrations by Jeanette Winter. Potter's words are in italics. I give this four stars only because I wish more of Potter's writing had been included. However, when Winter is writing as Potter (such as "One upon a time there was a little girl with wavy hair and serious eyes, and her name was Helen Beatrix Potter. I am that little girl.") she maintains the first person perspective so the text is not choppy. But you get an eerie feeling reading Potter's own description of her childhood days. It really helps children and adults alike realize that she was a real person.

In addition to the format, the text itself is very interesting. Potter lead a very secluded childhood. Her parents felt that the neighborhood children carried disease and were a bad influence so she turned to the world of animals for friendship and had quite a few pets. She was an avid sketcher (a good way to remind children that artists only got that way through a lot of practice) and loved to make up stories about her animal companions. The book ends with her "happily ever after" days at Hill Top Farm, which she was finally able to afford due to the success of her books. She was thrilled to "finally leave the sad gray city behind" and Winter describes: "I live here with eighty ewes, forty young sheep, three horses, fourteen cows, lots of calves, twenty-five hens, some pigs, five ducks, a dog, a pony, turkeys, a cat, rabbits, and my dear husband, Mr. Heelis."

For further reading, a bibliography is included in the back.

This lady could have been a great scientist as she was meticulous in observation and wanted to be a biologist. However she was a dutiful daughter and turned her talents first to writing and illustrating childrens stories and later to being an innovative and hardworking farmer and breeder of sheep. Her intense love of the beauty of the lake district and the old villages led into the conservation movement and she helped the birth of the National Trust in England.

This books gives deatiled information regarding beatrix life. It has great illustration that allow you see her past.

Zellweger and Mc Gregor are exceptional. The music in between stories is beautiful. I love all of it except for the fact it doesn't tell the child when to turn the page.

A minor note: The CD "pocket/envelope" is not in the actual book, so I used double sided tape to put it inside the cover. Separate the CD from the book and we may never find it again.

I have never read a book like this before. The letters cover most of her life from about age 5 on to her death in 1943. I felt as though I had happened on a box of correspondence that I found difficult to put down. Sort of like reading some one else's diary. Much was mundane and business like but there were occasional glimpses into her spirit. She loved the lakes area and through her determination, much of it is preserved today for the pure pleasure of the British population. I knew her for Peter Rabbit. I admire her for her later determination to preserve the land for the people.

This is a colouring book I used as a child and have since bought for many other children to use. Beatrix Potter's drawings are so near to real life that it encourages children to paint and colour like her.

Every child I have given it to has loved it and gone out and either bought a Beatrix Potter classic story book or a second Colouring book.

This book is not a complete works... it is simply a treasury of 9 of the "most loved" stories by B.P. She is awesome... her art is awesome... hardback is awesome.... the ONLY thing that would make this better would be a "complete works"

I'm not quite sure why I decided to purchase this book; ...I thought this would provide a different look at an exhaustively covered subject.

First, I would not recommend this book to a "casual fan" of Diana. There is some deep reading here, it's not a book that can be skimmed and understood. You have to *read* it. ...

Ms. Campbell seems to pull much of her book from other sources, with extensive quoting being quite a bit of what you are reading. She then takes these quotes and excerpts and adds her interpretations and opinions. Sometimes these were spot on, other times I felt that she was stretching a bit to prove her point. I also feel that the title is somewhat misleading; the book wasn't entirely what I expected. The author's repetitive claims of Diana being "penetrated" by the media's cameras, the world's eyes get rather boring and made for some eye-rolling on my part. There is no doubt that the media were invasive to Diana, but I also believe she played them at times--it was a give and take. Maybe if I were a "feminist" I would be more inclined to agree with this observation.

There is some fascinating history in regards to past Princes of Wales, their behaviours and relationships, in particular that of George IV and Princess Caroline of Brunswick. Ms. Campbell points out amazing similarities between Caroline and Diana, and for that alone this book is worth delving into. Although I am reasonably well-versed in the recent past and current happenings of the House of Windsor, what I read was news to me, and sheds some light on the Royal Family, Prince Charles, and a marriage that was, unfortunately, doomed from the start.

This is a wonderful book for early readers about Two mice and their adventures into the unknown. Timmy, the country mouse goes into the town by accident and gets a big surprise at the very different lifestyles etc. This book really relates to real life situations and how people get really surprised and scared in a new place. I would reccommend this story to children who are in the process of moving or have a new friend in town. It will help them realize how everywhere is different.

I bought this Peter Rabbit Nursery Frieze for my daughters bedroom. It is not a book or a calendar as the description states. It's more of a three piece scene that you can put together and hang up on the wall of a room(like a poster or border, depending on how you hang it). It's a beautiful scene with all of the characters from the Beatrix Potter stories. I would highly recommend it for a childs room or nursery. It is absolutely adorable.