We’re all familiar with “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” by Beatrix Potter. Peter Rabbit ventures into Mr. McGregor’s garden despite explicitly being told not to by his mother. His sisters, Mopsy, Flopsy ...

She created one of the world’s best-known characters for children, and fought to have the book published, but she never sought celebrity status. Beatrix Potter around 1900 outside her home. Though The ...

Beatrix Potter, an author who is known for children’s stories like "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" and died in 1943, is being accused of taking her stories from African slave tales. Dr. Emily Zobel ...

In this story drawn from Potter’s The Tale of Mr. Tod, Peter Rabbit and his cousin Benjamin ignore their parents’ advice to stay close to home because of the lurking fox, Mr. Tod. On each page, tiny ...

Many teen-agers will go to great lengths to keep their diaries private—I kept a little key for mine in a wooden jewelry box, which I guarded jealously—but the children’s book author Beatrix Potter ...

Emma Thompson isn't just an Oscar-winning actress; she's also an Oscar-winning writer. Thompson authored the 1995 film adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, and now she's taken on another ...

THE JOURNAL OF BEATRIX POTTER transcribed from her code writing by Leslie Under. 448 pages. Frederick Warne. $12.95. Once upon a time there was a shy little girl and her name was Beatrix. She lived ...

Britain’s brief but fertile Edwardian period was a golden age of children’s literature. The first decade of the 20th century saw the stage premiere of J.M. Barrie’s “Peter Pan” and the publication of ...