Publisher's Synopsis
Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit is a picture book for kids about a boy who's disobedient and mischievous when he enters and is chased around the garden of Mr. McGregor. When he goes back to his mom's home, he is put to bed after she's given him chamomile tea. The story was written for five-year-old Noel Moore, son of Potter's former wife Annie Carter Moore, in 1893. After a number of publishers turned down it, Potter redesigned and published it privately in 1901, however Co. and frederick Warne published it in a trade edition in 1902.
The book grew to be extremely popular and was reprinted a number of times in the years following its release. It's been translated into 36 languages and is one of the most well known books ever - with 45 million copies sold.
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*Biographical Information:
Artistic and literary career
This book discusses Potter's growing intellectual and artistic interests, her frequently humorous observations of the places she visited, and her uncommon ability in order to observe as well as to describe nature. Her journal was started in 1881 and ended in 1897 when she began concentrating her intellectual and artistic talents on scientific research and also the publication of her paintings.Precocious however reserved and usually bored, she was seeking much more independent pursuits and wanted making a little cash while taking proper care of her parents, assisting her particularly demanding mother and running their various households.
