Who is Beatrix Potter

Helen Beatrix Potter (, 28 July 1866 – 22 December 1943) was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist. She is best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as The Tale of Peter Rabbit.

Born into an upper-middle-class household, Potter was educated by governesses and grew up isolated from other children. She had numerous pets and spent holidays in Scotland and the Lake District, developing a love of landscape, flora and fauna, all of which she closely observed and painted.

Potter's study and watercolours of fungi led to her being widely respected in the field of mycology. In her thirties, Potter self-published the highly successful children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Following this, Potter began writing and illustrating c...
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Beatrix Potter Poems

• Goosey, Goosey, Gander
  GOOSEY, goosey, gander,
  Whither will you wander?
  Upstairs and downstairs,
  And in my lady's chamber!...
• Ninny Nanny Netticoat
  Ninny Nanny Netticoat,
  In a white petticoat,
  With a red nose, --
  The longer she stands, ...
• We Have A Little Garden
  WE have a little garden,
  A garden of our own,
  And every day we water there
  The seeds that we have sown. ...
• Cecily Parsley
  CECILY PARSLEY
  lived in a pen,
  And brewed good ale
  for gentlemen; ...
• Three Blind Mice
  Three blind mice, three blind mice,
  See how they run!
  They all run after the farmer's wife,
  And she cut off their tails with a carving knife, ...

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Beatrix Potter Quotes

• Thank goodness I was never sent to school it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
• All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest.

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