Beatrix Potter wrote and illustrated her first little book in 1902, and Peter Rabbit has been slipping under Mr. McGregor's garden gate ever since. What makes Potter's work endure isn't just the stories, though they are perfectly constructed, but the watercolors: precise, botanically observed, and suffused with the particular light of the English Lake District where she spent much of her life. She was a serious naturalist before she was a celebrated author, and that attentiveness to the living world is in every painting. This collection brings together gifts, keepsakes, and stationery for families who have grown up with Peter, Jemima, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, and the rest, and want to pass that love along.
