Most of the Beatrix Potter audiobooks on the Lit2Go website are between five and fifteen minutes long, making the goal of listening to all nineteen in one vacation period very doable. The Mice at Work: Threading the Needle c.1902 by Beatrix Potter, The Tailor of Glouster. One reason Beatrix Potter’s drawings of rabbits and mice are so real is that they’re the culmination of countless hours spent drawing from life. She and her family also made visits to rural Scotland and England, where she encountered new ecosystems and studied unfamiliar specimens. Potter’s Pets Were the Unpaid Stars of Her Stories. In addition to sketching her own petsincluding dogs, frogs, and a batshe also drew portraits of the creatures she encountered in her garden, like mice, hedgehogs, and rabbits. You may like to read more about her life and legacy at the website. What You Don’t Know About Beatrix Potter Fact 4. They were all rooted in her love of nature, her menagerie of pets, and her interest in farming and gardening. Potter’s stories didn’t just spring out of thin air.
While Potter’s tales can make great bedtime stories and can amuse both children and adults on long vacation drives, they also can be used as inspiration for summer activities. Here you’ll find her The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, The Tailor of Gloucester, and sixteen other favorites from the Peter Rabbit collection. Summer’s a great time for kids to push away from the keyboard for a bit and engage in some decidedly non-digital activities, but that’s not to say our digital collections can’t be a great starting point.īeatrix Potter is one of the most popular authors on our Lit2Go audiobook website.
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