Beatrix Potter
(1866 - 1943)
Beatrix Potter (born Helen Beatrix Potter) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children’s books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life.
Bibliography
Appley Dapply’s Nursery Rhymes (1917)
A collection of seven nursery rhymes with accompanying illustrations. Read online at wikisource.
Cecily Parsley’s Nursery Rhymes (1922)
A collection of eight nursery rhymes with pictures. Read online at archive.org. Or at wikisource.
The Complete Tales (1997)
This omnibus includes all twenty-three originally-published tales and four unpublished works.
Read online at archive.org.
Country Tales (1987)
This is an extract from “The Fairy Caravan” which has been newly illustrated by Pauline Baynes. It contains three stories.
The Fairy Caravan (1929)
A young guinea pig runs away and joins the circus.
Read online at archive.org.
Ginger and Pickles (1909)
A cat and a terrier set up a grocery store, but they give unlimited credit to their customers and soon have to file for bankruptcy. Read online at wikisource.
Jemima Puddle-Duck’s Painting Book (1925)
A story book with outline pages to be colored by the owner.
Junior Classics Volume 8 (1912)
Short accounts of our animal friends, both true and fictitious for children from six to sixteen. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Beatrix Potter
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Various
Charles Dudley Warner
Edmund Dulac
Various
Mostly Magic (1958)
A collection of traditional fairy tales, fables and nursery rhymes for younger children.
Andrew Lang
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Edward Lear
Hugh Lofting
Beatrix Potter
Et al
L. Leslie Brooke
Wanda Gág
Howard Pyle
Dr. Seuss
Et al
The Peter Rabbit Diary for any Year (1991)
A small diary with the pictures from the original 1929 almanac. Just one of many similar publications.
The Peter Rabbit Music Books: Book 1, Six Easy Pieces for Pianoforte (1935)
Six solo pieces for beginners, with six illustrations.
The Peter Rabbit Music Books: Book 2, Six Easy Duets for Pianoforte (1935)
Six easy duets, twelve pictures for beginning piano.
Peter Rabbit’s Almanac for 1929 (1928)
An almanac with pictures from Peter Rabbit.
Peter Rabbit’s Painting Book (1911)
Nine pictures from Peter Rabbit for the owner to paint in. Includes an abbreviated version of the original story.
The Pie and the Patty-Pan (1905)
Ribby the cat invites Dutchess the Pomeranian to a tea party. Read online at wikisource.
The Roly-Poly Pudding (1908)
Tom Kitten is captured by rats who determine to make him into a pie. Read online at archive.org. Or at wikisource.
Sister Anne (1932)
A version of Blue Beard by the author artist of the Lake District.
The Sly Old Cat (1971)
A cat invites a rat to a tea party, but it soon becomes apparent to the rat that she is to be the dessert.
Read online at archive.org.
The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit (1906)
The fierce bad rabbit steals a carrot from the good little rabbit, and as he eats it, is shot by a hunter and loses his tail and the carrot. This is the original panorama format.
The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit (1916)
The fierce bad rabbit steals a carrot from the good little rabbit, and as he eats it, is shot by a hunter and loses his tail and his carrot. This is the standard book edition that replaced the original panorama format. Read online at archive.org. Or at wikisource.