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Happy Birthday, Beatrix Potter

posted by Liz

Beatrix Potter – the author best known for “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” – was born today (July 28) in 1866. I had ever single Beatrix Potter story when I was growing up. I knew her nursery rhymes by heart, tried to draw rabbits like she did – it’s safe to say that she was my first favorite writer.

Potter’s stories often had a dark undertone – my favorite when I was a child was “The Tale of Samuel Whiskers, or the Roly-Poly Pudding,” where Samuel Whiskers (a giant rat) kidnaps Tom Kitten and prepares to bake him into a roly-poly pudding. Potter’s stories have remained popular for a hundred years now, and serve as a sort of catharsis for kids – we all love to be scared a little, to see danger up-close, but in the end, the good characters are saved.

posted July 28, 2008 authors | 0 comments

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