“Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.”

🐇#BeatrixPotter, English children's author and illustrator (The Tale of Peter Rabbit), passed away 22 December 1943

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Happy Birthday Beatrix Potter, born today 1866.
Here's a tribute illustration I've created to that amazing woman. , , ,

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The cats of born 28 July 1866. Here we have Miss Moppet, Tom Kitten & his sisters, & wicked Simpkin from the Tailor of Gloucester.

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Good night, lovely people and lovely dogs.
To celebrate I thought that the four would enjoy a story from she was a genius and an inspiration.
Sleep well and sweet dreams.

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children’s & was born in on 28th July 1866. In her first & most famous story, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, (1901), our eponymous hero, after much drama, escapes the farmer & ending up sharing his father’s fate in a pie.

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It's Spring! Here's "Guinea Pigs Gardening" by 1893. Image via

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