Beatrix Potter

While the dolls are away, two curious, naughty mice explore the dolls' house and steal their furniture.

When the tailor becomes sick and cannot finish the waistcoat for the Mayor, the mice finish it for him.

The fierce bad rabbit takes away the nice gentle rabbit's carrot nuts with the other squirrels. But, a hunter with a gun takes the fierce bad rabbit's tail and whiskers.

The story of a little mouse's funny house, the visitors she has there, and how she finally rids herself of the untidy, messy ones.

The first farm that Beatrix Potter owned, Hill Top, was an old house with thick walls and many hiding places for rats and mice. In The Tale of Samuel Whiskers this farmhouse is Tom Kitten's home and the story tells what happens when Tom accidently comes upon the rat Samuel Whiskers living in a secret hideout behind the attic walls.

Pigling sets off from home and, among his adventures, helps Pig-wig escape from Mr. Piperson.

Nursery rhymes about Appley Dapply, Cottontail, Mr. Pricklepin, and Diggory Delvet.

The classic tales of Peter Rabbit, Squirrel Nutkin, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, the Tailor of Gloucester, Jeremy Fisher, Benjamin Bunny, Miss Moppet, and the Two Bad Mice, plus Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes, with new illustrations.

Between the ages of 15 and 30 Beatrix Potter kept a secret diary written in code. When the code was cracked by Leslie Linder more than 20 years after her death, the diary revealed a remarkable picture of upper middle-class life in late Victorian Britain. The original diaries run to over 200,000 words so for this edition Glen Cavaliero has made a careful selection of complete entries and excerpts which provide an illuminating insight into the personality...

These stories for children never get old. A full range of charming English wild and farm animals are the main characters in these tales written by Beatrix Potter. These stories are perfect for young children. The characters are well fleshed out and the villains, although animals, are as real as human ones which make some of these good as cautionary tales. (Goodreads)