Beatrix Potter, Author Frederick Warne and Company $3.5 (12p) ISBN 978-0-7232-3418-0
""Peter Rabbit lives with his mother and sisters under the root of a big fir-tree. Peter wears a blue coat with brass buttons for going out. Naughty Peter likes to eat lettuces and radishes from Mr. McGregor's garden. But he doesn't like his mother's
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Beatrix Potter, Author Frederick Warne and Company $4.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-7232-3423-4
Selected pictures of Potter's works has been packaged here to suit the ABC format. Beneath the illustrations are paraphrases and quotes about items pictured. ""C is for carrot'' shows art from The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit, and ``This is a nice...
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Beatrix Potter, Author Frederick Warne and Company $3.95 (24p) ISBN 978-0-7232-3331-2
This activity book has four models for children to cut out and assemble: Mrs. Rabbit's burrow, Ginger and Pickle's shop, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle's kitchen, and the doll's house from The Tale of Two Bad Mice. Once the scenes are put together, children can...
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Beatrix Potter. Warne, $25 (112p) ISBN 978-0-241-24943-7
To commemorate Beatrix Potter’s 150th year, The Tale of Peter Rabbit’s first publisher invited 32 illustrators to reflect on Potter’s influence. Each artist shares nostalgic remarks and creates an illustration inspired by a Potter classic, alongside
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Beatrix Potter, Author, Charles Santore, Illustrator Running Press Book Publishers $9.98 (56p) ISBN 978-0-89471-460-3
Is it ever really possible to publish an well-known illustrator's text without the pictures that accompanied the original work? Could an artist other than Maurice Sendak create a Max and monsters to go Where the Wild Things Are? The answer is no,...
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Beatrix Potter, Author, Beatrix Potter, Illustrator, Beatrix Potter, Based on a Book by Penguin/Warne $21.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7232-6381-4
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 envelopes appear, containing...
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Beatrix Potter, Author, Colin Twinn, Designed by, Keith Moseley, Designed by Frederick Warne and Company $11.95 (12p) ISBN 978-0-7232-3360-2
Had Beatrix Potter anticipated the pop-up book, perhaps this story would have been her choice for the format. The familiar tale of two mice who wreak havoc on a dollhouse when they discover that the miniature food isn't edible has been given three-di
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Anne Emerson, Author, Beatrix Potter, Author, Beatrix Potter, Illustrator Frederick Warne and Company $6.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-7232-3328-2
This collection was ""suggested'' by foods mentioned in and pictures taken from the works of Beatrix Potter. Thus, among the 21 recipes are a good deal of tea-party fare, some porridges, four puddings (Hunca Munca's Rice Pudding, Tabitha Twitchit's...
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Beatrix Potter. Warne, $8.99 (20p) ISBN 978-0-241-35477-3
Peter Rabbit and other Potter characters are featured in this counting board book. Peter, mice, kittens, squirrels, and ducklings, among others, are pictured in the illustration style of the classic stories, set against soft, cream-colored pages...
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Retold by Beatrix Potter, illus. by Helen Oxenbury. Warne, $20 (48p) ISBN 978-0-241-37534-1
In an illustrator’s foreword, Greenaway Medalist Oxenbury discusses what drew her to Potter’s retelling of M. Perrault’s fairy tale: its setting, “so rooted in the English countryside,” and the allure of drawing a villain. The rhythmic text follows...
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