A lovely new board book of Peter Rabbit and his friends enjoying the Springtime. The charming rhyming story features lots of Beatrix Potter's most famous characters, such as Tom Kitten and Jemima Puddle-Duck in a Pied Piper-style adventure. This great-value board book has thick sturdy pages, and a simple but effective raised cut-out Peter Rabbit on the cover. It has all the ingredients to become a firm favourite!
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.
