At Home with Beatrix Potter: The Creator of Peter Rabbit
Sign in to keep track of books you’ve read and want to read.
The creator of Peter Rabbit, Samuel Whiskers, and Jemima Puddle-Duck, Beatrix Potter (18661942) is one of the best-loved children's book authors of all time. Yet few in America are aware of the role she played in protecting some of England's most beautiful landscapes and in designing romantic interiors and a lovely garden at Hill Top, her beloved Lake District farmhouse.
Read more
Taking the reader through her picturesque house and the breathtaking scenery around it that inspired many of her famous stories, this charming book is the first to look at the intimate connection between the English countryside and Potter's work. Her own exquisite sketches and watercolors, as well as personal ephemera, appear alongside specially commissioned full-color photographs, revealing a home filled with treasured old furniture and beautiful objects and celebrating an artist-storyteller whose legacy as a conservationist at last receives the attention it deserves.
Liked At Home with Beatrix Potter: The Creator of Peter Rabbit? Here’s where I’d start.
These suit anyone who liked At Home with Beatrix Potter: The Creator of Peter Rabbit. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.
-
Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature Shares nonfiction, biography, art -
May and Amy: A True Story of Family, Forbidden Love, and the Secret Lives of May Gaskell, Her Daughter Amy, and Sir Edward Burne-Jones Shares nonfiction, biography, art -
Van Gogh's Inner Struggle: Life, Work and Mental Illness Shares nonfiction, art, biography -
All the Presidents' Gardens: Madison’s Cabbages to Kennedy’s Roses—How the White House Grounds Have Grown with America Shares nonfiction, gardening, history
