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Most Helpful tags Customer Reviews: peter rabbit(3), beatrix potter(3), movie(3), miss potter(2), england(2), gardening(2), fascinating(2), love(2), literature, screenplays, book, renee zellwegger
Product Description
Most famously famous as a author of The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter lived a many conspicuous life. Expanding on a plotline of a film, formed on her life, this novelization tells a relocating story of a woman's tour to learn success, independence, and, many astonishing of all love.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1131443 in Books
- Published on: 2006-12-28
- Released on: 2006-12-28
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 189 pages
Customer Reviews
Most useful patron reviews
10 of 10 people found a following examination helpful.
A pleasing touching story
By A. Wright
I unequivocally enjoyed this small story. we suspicion it would be sincerely predictable, though found it engaging and surprising. It's a story that will stay with me for a prolonged time, and positively will lapse to my thoughts each time we see Peter Rabbit or Jemima Puddleduck or another of Beatrix Potter's creations! After reading a book I'm concerned to find a duplicate of Peter Rabbit and investigate a drawings some-more closely.
The reason we have given it 5 stars is not so most for a peculiarity of essay though given a story unequivocally overwhelmed me.
If we haven't examination any of Beatrix Potter's animal tales, we will still suffer this story formed on her life and will substantially wish to have a demeanour during some of her work after reading it!
5 of 5 people found a following examination helpful.
A pleasant small gem of a book about a creator of Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddleduck and Flopsy, Mopsie and Cottontail
By C. M Mills
Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) grew adult in a cold home during a Edwardian era. Her relatives were aged Unitarians and her hermit became an alcoholic. Beatrix retreated to her upstairs bedroom. In that bedroom she began to pull pleasing watercolors in pastel clarity of her small hypothetical friends such as Peter Rabbit and his garden friends.
Beatrix was a clever willed person. At a age of 36 her small book on Peter Rabbit was supposed for announcement by a organisation of F. Warne Co. Though bashful Beatrix fell in adore with one of a 3 Warne brothers. She and Norman were formulation to be married notwithstanding a antithesis of her parents. They deliberate Warne to be in trade and underneath a reserved spinsterish lady they desired and protected. Tragedy ensued when Norman died.
Beatrix bought Hill Top plantation and found adore with a internal barrister who like she was meddlesome in preserving England's pleasing landscape. Today her Hill Top plantation is owned by a National Trust being open to thousands of tourists.
we hesitated in purchasing this book given it was usually a movie-tie-in to a new Renee Zellwegger film. It's author is Richard Maltby who also wrote a film's screenplay. we was charmingly surprised! Maltby has woven this elementary and heartwarming story of Miss Potter with charm, wit, pathos and
it is apparent he has a comfortable mark for Beatrix and her bushy friends. "Peter Rabbit" is still a bestselling book for children that has been created in a English language.
If we wish to spend a few hours removing to know a formidable artistic talent Beatrix Potter examination this glorious small book. A loyal joy!
5 of 5 people found a following examination helpful.
For kids?
By Dave
With Renee Zellwegger's desirable grin lucent during me from a internal book store's children section, we was irresistibly spellbound into purchasing a duplicate of "Miss Potter The Novel."
After immersing myself in a tale, we was not disappointed, though we was quickly confused. The story seemed to start off a bit delayed and stiff. And afterwards we satisfied why. This book is not indeed created for 9-12 year olds. It is, in fact, a brief adult novel formed on a life of Beatrix Potter, that seems to have mirrored most of a tract of Sense and Sensibility.
That said, we was agreeably astounded by a calm of a story. We learn how a artistic talents indispensable to furnish such dainty tales as Peter Rabbit perceptible themselves, and how a singular opinion on life can impact artists in both certain and disastrous ways.
Aside from a integrate of sentences containing potential adult content, a book is glorious for both children and adults. If we wish an glorious examination about following your bliss, demeanour no further.
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