Any discussion of great British
illustrators of children’s fiction in the 20th century can’t ignore
the claims of Beatrix Potter as one of the finest. She was arguably the
greatest writer illustrator. Beatrix Potter wrote some thirty books, starting
with The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Now, I’ll be honest, while I loved “The Tailor
of Gloucester” and “The Tale of Jeremy Fisher” when I was a kid, I really
didn’t like some of the other stories very much. For example, I thought that
“The Roly Poly Pudding” was very weird, and not a little disturbing for that
matter. But I still think that Beatrix Potter’s illustrations were never less
than engaging, and some of them are absolutely enchanting.
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