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Meet Peter Rabbit: Seedlings Chunky Board Book
Book by Potter, Beatrix
- GenresPicture BooksChildrens
Board Book
First published October 29, 1986
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About the author
Beatrix Potter
3,358 books2,142 followersHelen Beatrix Potter was an English author, illustrator, mycologist, and conservationist who is best known for her children's books, which featured animal characters such as Peter Rabbit.
Born into a wealthy household, Potter was educated by governesses and grew up isolated from other children. She had numerous pets, and through holidays in Scotland and the Lake District, developed a love of landscape, flora, and fauna, all of which she closely observed and painted. Because she was a woman, her parents discouraged intellectual development, but her study and paintings of fungi led her to be widely respected in the field of mycology.
In her thirties, Potter published the highly successful children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit and became secretly engaged to her publisher, Norman Warne, causing a breach with her parents, who disapproved of his social status. Warne died before the wedding.
Potter eventually published 24 children's books, the most recent being The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots (2016), and having become financially independent of her parents, was able to buy a farm in the Lake District, which she extended with other purchases over time.
In her forties, she married a local solicitor, William Heelis. She became a sheep breeder and farmer while continuing to write and illustrate children's books. Potter died in 1943 and left almost all of her property to The National Trust in order to preserve the beauty of the Lake District as she had known it, protecting it from developers.
Potter's books continue to sell well throughout the world, in multiple languages. Her stories have been retold in various formats, including a ballet, films, and in animation.
Born into a wealthy household, Potter was educated by governesses and grew up isolated from other children. She had numerous pets, and through holidays in Scotland and the Lake District, developed a love of landscape, flora, and fauna, all of which she closely observed and painted. Because she was a woman, her parents discouraged intellectual development, but her study and paintings of fungi led her to be widely respected in the field of mycology.
In her thirties, Potter published the highly successful children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit and became secretly engaged to her publisher, Norman Warne, causing a breach with her parents, who disapproved of his social status. Warne died before the wedding.
Potter eventually published 24 children's books, the most recent being The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots (2016), and having become financially independent of her parents, was able to buy a farm in the Lake District, which she extended with other purchases over time.
In her forties, she married a local solicitor, William Heelis. She became a sheep breeder and farmer while continuing to write and illustrate children's books. Potter died in 1943 and left almost all of her property to The National Trust in order to preserve the beauty of the Lake District as she had known it, protecting it from developers.
Potter's books continue to sell well throughout the world, in multiple languages. Her stories have been retold in various formats, including a ballet, films, and in animation.
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March 5, 2010
There was four bunny brothers that went out to play, being warned first by the mother to stay out of the gardens. Three boys listen, but Peter didn't, he entered the garden and got caught but escape not after losing his new blue coat.
This book has a different set of pictures, pop up pictures. It jumps out of you with pastal colors. The pictures really coax with the story but there is not much theme within the illustrations. After the pop-ups come out and the kids get wow, the will be over the illustrations because there is not much pop to them.
This book has a different set of pictures, pop up pictures. It jumps out of you with pastal colors. The pictures really coax with the story but there is not much theme within the illustrations. After the pop-ups come out and the kids get wow, the will be over the illustrations because there is not much pop to them.
March 16, 2023
Beatrix Potter's stories (esp. the Peter Rabbit stories) are a treasure that should show up at least once in every child's life. And/but the franchise seems to have taken on a life of its own and there must be hundreds of books out there like this one which feature reproductions of the artwork and a very slipped down version of the story. And by "slimmed down", I mean "a series of vignettes that are each about 15 words long."
November 26, 2011
A darling, pop-up adaptation of the Beatrix Potter classic. It does a good job getting the story onto three pages, though the ending falls off. Better for a home use, as the pop-up elements would quickly break with library usage.
August 15, 2008
My first book ever, my most prized posession.
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