Nursery ​Rhyme Book

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Beatrix ​Potter loved traditional rhymes and riddles, and she wove them into her Tales whenever she could. Here is a delightful collection of nearly one hundred nursery rhymes, some of them taken from her books, and some which were intended to be published but which were dropped for reasons of space, or because the book itself was never completed. Verses from the privately-printed edition of The Tailor of Gloucester and rhymes for the early 1905 edition of Appley Dappley’s Nursery Rhymes which was never finished rub shoulders with better-known favourites from the 1917 edition of Appley Dappley’s Nursery Rhymes, Cecily Parsley’s Nursery Rhymes, The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes and The Fairy Caravan, together with rhymes from The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin. Some of the rhymes are traditional, quoted from Haliwell if Beatrix Potter’s reference was too scanti; some are Beatrix Potter’s special adaptations; others are Beatrix Potter originals.

Charming illustration from Beatrix Potter’s work perfectly complement the rhymes, and make the book an ideal gift for any child. A special feature od this edition are the fresh reproductions (from new transparencies) of nearly all the original paintings included in the book.

Beatrix Potter was born on July 28, 1866. She spent a lonely but interesting childhood, for although her parents were inclined to keep her isolated from the company of children, she was encouraged to study art, and as she grew older, natural history. She kept animals in the schoolroom – Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny had been two of these pets, which is why they retain their true animal characteristics in her famous Tales, despite the little blue jacket, tam-o-shanter and clogs.

Later in life she maintained that she was glad that she had never gone to school because it would have rubbed off some of the originality. She had been educated by governesses, and it was for the little son of the last governess that the celebrated Peter Rabbit story was written – as a picture letter in 1893. She later had it turned into a book, first in a privately printed edition, and in 1902 it appeared with coloured pictures as the first of the series of little Tales which have become so popular throughout the world.

In 1913 Beatrix Potter married William Heelis, a solicitor in the Lake District, and became more and more involved in farming as the years wnt on. When she died in 1943 she left four thousand acres of Lake District land to National Trust.

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