Can Peter and friends solve the mystery of his dad's long-lost flying machine?
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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