Beatrix Potter

This biography of tells of the author's life from birth until she is old in age. It shares the unique facts of this private and modest author. I personally enjoyed how this biography shares Beatrix's work of identifying fungi, which was not accepted during her lifetime, because she was a female.

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This author had a love for nature, painting, and writing, and I felt this biography allows the reader to understand those values. I enjoyed the creativity of the illustrator of always incorporating a rabbit in to the picture as this adds to the Beatrix Potter's influence as a writer. The classic illustrations are appropriate for the era this author was a live.

This would be a good source for young children for learning about Beatrix potter, however, there is not a bibliography page. There is an author's note sharing what happened to her work after her death, and a listing of her other books.

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This book actually made me a little disappointed in the movie Miss Potter, which I love, because it seems like Beatrix Potter was even more fantastic than they showed her. She actually printed her first book on her own, and it wasn't until it sold very successfully that the Warne publishers would

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even consider her. The more I learn about her, the more I wish I could have known her. I think we would have been friends.

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Beatrix came from a privileged English background were she was raised by her governess and was given the best education. She was isolated in her life and was not allowed to play with other children. Because of that she turned to her pets as comfort. One day her father brought her to visit a famous

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painter which inspired her to want to become a painter. She eventually focused on her writing and her passion for mushrooms and did research that mushrooms can help cure cancer but due to the era she lived, many woman were not taken seriously in the field of science. Being turned down in the science industry caused Beatrix to become depressed and she turned to writing a story to a dear friend. She made a story about some rabbits, and eventually make the story into a book. She was turned down by many publishers at first but this did not stop her from publishing her own book. Finally, one publisher contacted Beatrix and agreed to rewrite her story of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit." She eventually married and focused her life on farming and raising animals with her husband. In the last years of her life she dedicated herself to raising Herdwick Sheep. She became the first woman to be elected president in the Herdwick Sheep breeeder's Association. She passed away at the age of seventy-seven but her books live on as they are passed down from generation to generation.

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