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 enlarge | Author: Linda Lear
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 113314
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 608
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.5 x 1.8
ISBN: 0312377967
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.912
EAN: 9780312377960
ASIN: 0312377967
Publication Date: March 4, 2008
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My new role model October 4, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'm a writer and illustrator of children's books. After reading Linda Lear's masterful biography of Beatrix Potter, I have a new role model, Beatrix Potter.I'm inspired by her devotion to her art, her spunky determination against many obstacles, and of course, her exceptional talent. Her interaction with her publisher was very familiar to me, and encouraging.
I'll read this book again soon. Thank you, Ms. Lear. You, too, are an exceptional craftsman of your art.
 Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature June 2, 2007
3 out of 12 found this review helpful
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Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature May 11, 2007
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Enjoyable read. Interesting woman. Although she is perhaps best known as the author of the the children's book "Peter Rabbit" Beatrix Potter, the woman, lead a full and useful life that was dedicated to preserving nature. This book tells the story of Beatrix Potter's life from the beginning, tracing her family's lineage, and ends with her death. If you're interested in learning more about Beatrix Potter beyond her image as the author and designer of childrens toys and wall paper, buy this book.
Book for guys. April 4, 2007
19 out of 20 found this review helpful
My wife bought the book and I picked it up by mistake, not intending to read a biography of the woman who gave us Peter Rabbit -and certainly not of Mrs.Tiggy-Winkle--of whom I have never heard (but Google had, a lot). I persevered, however, and soon got caught up in an eye-level account of the customs and mores of life in rural England, Scotland and Wales. I envy Potter her tough life-long struggle with her sheep, her neighbors and fellow farmers and her cottage. She lived among people she admired and respected and in a place she loved and thought was the most beautiful on earth. Buy this book for your wife, but read it first yourself.
Splendid book about an amazing person March 22, 2007
29 out of 31 found this review helpful
Beatrix Potter led a far more interesting life that I could have imagined. Raised as a proper young lady, she was assigned by her parents as the manager of their household. She was in charge of the servants and responsible to be sure that everything was done properly and well.
So while she was doing this, she studied (by herself of course, who would let a girl go to school) and became a rather reknown mycologist, making the breakthrough observation that lichens were a symbiotic relationship between fungi and algae. She was proposed to be a member of the student body at the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew. But, of course, as a mere female she was turned down.
So beginning to make some drawings, and writing a few stories she became the J.K. Rowling of her time when she published a book 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit.' She went on to publish another 22 books, and to create a merchandising empire about the characters.
Making yet another switch in later life, she became a gentleman farmer, raising prizewinning sheep and cattle.
Ms. Lear has not only done a splendid job in writing this book, she deserves our thanks.
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