Complete Adventures of Peter Rabbit

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. She worked with the National Trust, the organisation dedicated to the preservation of places of historic interest or natural beauty in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. As a result of her efforts much Lake District land remains in the care of the National Trust to this day. Beatrix Potter once wrote, "If I have done anything - even a little - to help small children appreciate honest, simple pleasures, I have done a bit of good." Her timeless little tales still sell in their millions and continue to be enjoyed by children all over the world.Potter, Beatrix is the author of 'Complete Adventures of Peter Rabbit' with ISBN 9780723247340 and ISBN 072324734X.