Peter Rabbit and Other Happy Tales by Ann Evans
With my article writing hat on, this month I've written a piece on Beatrix Potter, seeing as 2016 marks the 150 th anniversary of her birth. Doing the research it surprised me to discover that she was an indie author herself at the start of her writing career – apologies if everyone except me knew this already!! But for those of you who don't know her story, Beatrix loved wildlife and exploring the countryside and made pets out of all kinds of wild creatures such as rabbits, frogs, mice and the like. These little animals and birds were the inspiration for her stories in later life along with farm animals when Beatrix took up sheep farming in the Lake District. In 1893, Beatrix was on holiday in Eastwood, Dunkeld when she decided to write a letter to Noel Moore who was the five year old son of a former nanny, who was poorly. She wrote: “ My dear Noel, I don’t know what to write to you, so I shall tell you a story about four little rabbits… That let...