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Beatrix Potter

One of the world’s greatest children’s writers and illustrators, Beatrix Potter created some of the most recognisable characters in English literature, including Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle-Duck and Benjamin Bunny.

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Our Bestselling Beatrix Potter Books

The Tale Of Peter Rabbit
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Night Night Peter Rabbit
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Peter Rabbit's Bedtime Tales
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Peter Rabbit Let's Cuddle
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Peter Rabbit Finger Puppet Book
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The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck
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The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
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Peter Rabbit Buggy Book
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The Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies
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Peter Rabbit: Tickle Tickle Peter!
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The Tale Of Peter Rabbit
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£75.00
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A beautifully-designed gift box containing the first 12 of Beatrix Potter's 23 Original Peter Rabbit Tales - The Tales of Peter Rabbit; Squirrel Nutkin; The Tailor of Gloucester; Benjamin Bunny; Two Bad Mice; Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle; Mr. Jeremy Fisher; Tom Kitten; Jemima Puddle-Duck; The Flopsy Bunnies; Mrs. Tittlemouse and Timmy Tiptoes. The perfect Christening or birth-gift.
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Beatrix Potter - The Originals in Hardback

The Tale Of Peter Rabbit
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The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
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The Tailor of Gloucester
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The Tale of Benjamin Bunny
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The Tale of Two Bad Mice
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The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle
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The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher
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The Story of Miss Moppet
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The Tale of Tom Kitten
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The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck
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The Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies
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The Tale of Ginger & Pickles
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The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse
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The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes
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The Tale of Mr. Tod
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Gift Editions and Collectibles

The World of Peter Rabbit 1-12 Gift Box
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The Tale Of Peter Rabbit
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V&A Introduces: Beatrix Potter
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Penguin Random House Children's UK
Hardback
£6.99
Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes
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Peter Rabbit: Nursery Rhyme Time
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Penguin Random House Children's UK
Board book
£9.99
Peter Rabbit: My First Classic Library
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£25.00

Emma Thompson Editions

The Further Tale of Peter Rabbit
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The Christmas Tale of Peter Rabbit
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£7.99
Board book
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Our favourite furry friend, Peter Rabbit, is available in a new beautiful board book edition of the classic tale. This board book format is perfect for families to share and read all about Peter Rabbit's very first adventure!
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Seasonal Books

Peter's First Easter
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Peter Rabbit: Easter Fun
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Peter Rabbit I Love You Grandma
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Peter Rabbit I Love You Grandpa
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Peter Rabbit Animation: Best Dad!
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Penguin Random House Children's UK
Board book
£5.99
Peter Rabbit: Easter Egg Hunt
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Peter Rabbit: Christmas Tales
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The Christmas Tale of Peter Rabbit
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Books for Babies and Toddlers

Night Night Peter Rabbit
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Peter Rabbit's Bedtime Tales
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Peter Rabbit Let's Cuddle
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Peter Rabbit: A Big Box of Little Books
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Penguin Random House Children's UK
Board book
£12.99
Peter Rabbit: I Love You
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Peter Rabbit: Tickle Tickle Peter!
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Peter Rabbit: Peter's Picnic
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Peter Rabbit: Hide and Seek!
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Peter Rabbit: My First Classic Library
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Multiple items, slip-cased
£25.00

First Experiences

Peter Rabbit: Peter's Picnic
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P is for Peter
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Penguin Random House Children's UK
Board book
£5.99
What Time Is It, Peter Rabbit?
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Night Night Peter Rabbit
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Peter Rabbit's Bedtime Tales
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Peter Rabbit: Tickle Tickle Peter!
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Peter Rabbit: Nursery Rhyme Time
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Penguin Random House Children's UK
Board book
£9.99
Peter Rabbit: Head Over Tail
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Peter Rabbit: Peter's Magnet Fun
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£8.99
Board book
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Peter Rabbit is off to visit his friend Squirrel Nutkin! On his way, he comes across many familiar friends and asks all sorts of questions about their homes . . . Will Peter find out he and his friends are more similar than he thought?
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Peter Rabbit Gifts and Toys

Mrs Tiggy-Winkle Ironing Needle Felting Kit
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The Crafty Kit Company
Kit
£25.00
Peter Rabbit And The Stolen Radishes Needle Felting Kit
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The Crafty Kit Company
Kit
£25.00
Peter Rabbit Plans His Next Adventure Embroidery Kit
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The Crafty Kit Company
General merchandise
£23.99
Peter Rabbit Dinnerset
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Enesco
Soft toy
£29.99
Tonies Peter Rabbit - The Peter Rabbit Collection
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Tonies
General merchandise
£14.99
Peter Rabbit Large
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Enesco
Soft toy
£24.99
Peter Rabbit Medium
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Enesco
Soft toy
£19.99
Peter Rabbit Bookends
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General merchandise
£21.99
Peter Rabbit Skittles
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Orange Tree Toys
Toy
£21.99
Peter Rabbit Wooden Picture Blocks
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Rainbow Designs
Toy
£19.99
Jemima Pull Along
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Orange Tree Toys
Toy
£12.99
Peter Rabbit Cloth Book
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Penguin Random House Children's UK
Rag book
£14.99
Peter Rabbit Baby Cards: for Milestone Moments
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Penguin Random House Children's UK
Postcard book or pack
£10.99
Peter Rabbit Book and Snuggle Blanket
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Animation Editions

Peter Rabbit Animation: Sticker Activity Book
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Penguin Random House Children's UK
Paperback
£4.99
Peter Rabbit Animation: Lily's Party Time
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Penguin Random House Children's UK
Paperback
£5.99
Peter Rabbit Animation: Friends Forever
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Penguin Random House Children's UK
Paperback
£5.99
Peter Rabbit Animation: Hop to It! Sticker Book
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Penguin Random House Children's UK
Paperback
£4.99
Peter Rabbit Animation: Secret Treehouse Sticker Activity Book
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Penguin Random House Children's UK
Paperback
£4.99
Peter Rabbit Animation: Best Dad!
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Penguin Random House Children's UK
Board book
£5.99

Activity Books

The Beatrix Potter Colouring Book
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Penguin Random House Children's UK
Paperback
£9.99
Peter Rabbit Animation: Secret Treehouse Sticker Activity Book
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Penguin Random House Children's UK
Paperback
£4.99

Audiobooks (CD)


Peter Rabbit Movie 2 Books

Peter Rabbit Movie 2 Novelisation
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Peter Rabbit Movie 2 Sticker Activity Book
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Penguin Random House Children's UK
Paperback
£3.99
Peter Rabbit Movie 2 Quiz Book
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Penguin Random House Children's UK
Paperback
£5.99
Peter Rabbit Movie 2 Novelisation
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Peter Rabbit 2: Little Rabbit Big City
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Penguin Random House Children's UK
Hardback
£5.99

Biography

Everything was romantic in my imagination. The woods were peopled by the mysterious good folk. The Lords and Ladies of the last century walked with me long the overgrown paths, and picked the old fashioned flowers among the box and rose hedges of the garden.


Early Life

Born in 1866, Beatrix Potter spent most of her early life in London. Her father was a barrister by profession but was also an excellent amateur photographer. He made sure the young Beatrix and her younger brother Bertram received private painting tuition alongside their other lessons. Beatrix loved to read; in particular fairy tales. Two of her childhood favourites were Alice in Wonderland (she poured over John Tenniel’s illustrations and even tried her hand at her own) and the nonsense verse of Edward Lear.

The family were passionate about the natural world, taking regular holidays in Scotland and the Lake District where the whole family would go out armed with sketchbooks to capture the world around them. The two Potter children also kept a variety of pets in the schoolroom including Peter the rabbit, a canary, a budgerigar and a frog called Punch. When Bertram went away to school he remembered to leave her with plenty of friends to entertain her, including gifting her a pair of unusual long-eared bats.

It was these early sketches that were to become the seeds of inspiration for her best-loved stories.


A Certain Little Rabbit Called Peter

Painfully shy, Beatrix was not a natural socialite, despite the urging of her family who were keen to see her married and settled. The Potters were wealthy and moved in elite circles; the young Beatrix was teased by John Everett Millais and attended parties frequented by some of the most notable literary and artistic figures of the day, including Oscar Wilde.

A talented amateur mycologist, a modern day Beatrix Potter might well have gone on to pursue a career in botany or natural sciences. The early 19th century offered her no such options. At 25, Beatrix was by any ordinary measure of the time, a failure. She was unmarried, with no prospect of being so, still in the nursery where she remained well into adulthood - a decided spinster.

To earn some money, Beatrix and Bertram successfully designed and sold their own greeting’s cards which Beatrix illustrated with the animal designs that were to become her trademark. However, the character destined to become her most famous creation came out of a little storybook she sent (accompanying one of her many ‘picture letters’) to entertain the children of her former governess, Annie Moore in 1893.

It took a further seven years for Beatrix’s story to reach print but finally, after much amendment, Warne’s publishers agreed to produce a modest print-run of her ‘little book’ (as Beatrix always referred to it) about a certain Mr Peter Rabbit.

Over the course of her writing career, Beatrix Potter went on to publish another twenty-two animal stories, introducing some of the most popular and recognisable children’s characters of all-time including: Jemima Puddle-Duck, Squirrel Nutkin and Mrs Tiggy-Winkle along with other stories and books on how to paint.


Peter’s Legacy

An astute and pioneering businesswoman, Beatrix was entirely involved with every facet of her books’ production and had almost endless ideas for toys and games to accompany them. She even came up with a prototype doll for Peter Rabbit and designed her own wallpaper.

It was in the Lake District where her heart truly belonged though and in she bought Hill Top Farm in Cumbria. She had intended to live there with Frederick Warne, the editor at her publishers who she had become engaged to that year, but tragically Warne died a month after they agreed to marry. Beatrix remained living in the nursery of her parent’s house until she met and married her solicitor William Heelis in 1913 and gave up writing altogether to concentrate on farming. She lived at Hill Top for the rest of her life and after her death the house and adjoining land were bequeathed to the National Trust. This is still the largest legacy ever left to the Trust in the North West, encompassing 4,000 acres and 15 farms.

Beatrix died in 1943 having devoted her later life to the countryside she loved so much, working as hard on her farms as she had at her writing, her ethos was always “I would rather keep going till I drop – early or late – never mind what the work is, so long as it is useful and well done.”