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Beatrix Potter Peter Rabbit

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Helen Beatrix Potter was an English author conservationist, natural scientist, and illustrator best known for the 24 Tales series of animal books that featured the character Peter Rabbit. Beatrix was born in Kensington, London to Helen and Rupert Potter in 1866. Beatrix and her younger brother Walter Bertram loved to paint and draw, and would make many sketches of their pets that included bats, snakes, lizards, frogs, mice, and rabbits. With her parents encouraging her, Beatrix spent hours on her sketches of plants and animals, which was evidence of her early attraction to the natural world that continued into her adult life. Even as she never attended any type of formal schooling, she turned out to be an industrious and intelligent student …show more content…

McGregor’s garden. He escapes from the clutches of McGregor and goes home to be put to bed on chamomile tea. The widowed rabbit mother always tells her children not to go into Mr. McGregor’s garden since their father had been caught in a trap in the garden and had been made one of the ingredients of a pie. Her three daughters are for the most part obedient and do not visit the garden preferring to pick berries down the lane even as Peter loves to go into the garden to gnaw on vegetables. It is not long before Peter is spotted, and in a frantic chase to escape loses his shoes and jacket before making it out of the garden. Wriggling under the gate he stops to look back to find the farmer using his clothing to adorn his scarecrow. Happy to be alive, he runs home to a tongue lashing from his other and chamomile tea while his sisters enjoy a sumptuous meal of berries and …show more content…

The story is about an insolent young squirrel named Nutkin who narrowly escapes the clutches of Old Brown, one of the deadliest owl’s in the

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