Beatrix Potter Blog

Today was Beatrix Potter’s Birthday! I spent the whole day off and on putting this together. Her friends gathered for a party =)

Various illustrations were from her books.

Music from an Anne of Green Gables celtic CD 1. Farewell to Nova Scotia 2. Irish Mischief

SO sorry about the hard-to-see words. It was not like that before I uploaded it.

Here’s what it says:
July 28 Today is…Beatrix Potter’s Birthday!
She would have been 142 years old!
So… HAPPY BIRTHDAY Beatrix Potter! Your stories are still loved by the young and old!
As you see there was much merriment at her birthday celebration today!
Lots of carrot cake…Dancing….and Friends! I hope you’ve enjoyed it.

Bio from NNDB:
British children’s book author and illustrator. Best known for her character Peter Rabbit. She drew watercolor illustrations, usually of farmyard animals. She kept a diary from age fifteen onwards, writing in a secret code that was only cracked fifteen years after her death. She was engaged to publisher Frederick Warne’s son Norman in 1905, but he died from leukemia a month after proposing. After her marriage to William Heelis in 1913, her writing declined in frequency, especially as her eyesight worsened. She spent the last thirty years of her life raising sheep. Potter left most of her property to the British National Trust, which created the Lake District National Park. A British icon, her illustrations adorn lines of children’s clothing, dishes, sterling, collectible figurines; her books have been made into cartoons.

Beatrix Potter Music Boxes