The World of Peter Rabbit Five Favourite Tales from Beatrix Potter

This beautiful slipcase has been produced to celebrate 110 years since the publication of The Tale of Peter Rabbit and contains books 1-5 of the Original Peter Rabbit Books. What makes the books even more delightful is that each one has newly designed endpapers and a publisher's note describing how each book came to be.

Each of the five stories takes you deep into the English countryside as you become familiar with Beatrix Potter's famous and (mostly!) lovable characters. Each tale with its soft water-colour artwork will delight and charm adults and children alike.

This slipcase includes:
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
The Tailor of Gloucester
The Tale of Benjamin Bunny
The Tale of Two Bad Mice

Beatrix Potter

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.