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Tale of Peter Rabbit (Penguin Edition)

ISBN 
9780723294078
Format 
Hardback
Recommended Price 
R230.00
Published 
March 2015
About the book: 

2015 is the 80th anniversary of Penguin Books, as commemorated by this special edition of The Tale of Peter Rabbit. The specially-designed jacket features the iconic triband Penguin cover, in Peter Rabbit blue. A must for all book lovers, this special edition celebrates two of the most iconic literary greats of all time.

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About the Author

Beatrix has created some of the best-loved characters in children's literature

Beatrix Potter was born in London in 1866. During her rather lonely childhood and later, as a young woman, she studied art and natural history. She acquired her love and knowledge of the countryside during family holidays, at first in Scotland and then in the Lake District. She started her career as children's author and illustrator in 1901 when she was thirty-five. In the years before the First World War, demand for her work was so great that she was publishing an average of two new stories a year. As she became financially independent, she was able to buy some land in the Lake District and in 1913, on her marriage to solicitor William Heelis, she moved to live there permanently. For the last thirty years of her life, writing and illustrating gave place to a second career as a sheep farmer and countryside conservationist.

Her little books never lost their popularity however and today they sell in their millions, translated into numerous languages, and the pleasures of those timeless tales continue to be enjoyed by children all over the world.

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