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developed a love of literature and art. She used to practice her craft bv
making illustrations for fairy tales like Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty. Also
drawn to nature, she and her younger brother Walter kept many pets
mice, rabbits, even bats and a hedgehog and she loved her family's long
holidays in the Scottish countryside and the Lake District, a mountainous
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As a child and teenager, Potter made great sketches of her pets, as
well as of trees and plants. She also kept a diary in which she recorded her
Qpinions about cultural and political ideas and events. She wrote in a secret
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In the 1890s, Potter began selling her drawings.Potter's work was used
for Christmas and New Year cards and an illustration of poetry. She was
pleased by this success and decided to publish her own illustrated stories for
children. In 1901, after the manuscript. was rejected by several publishers,
she self-published her first book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, She had first
written and drawn a version of the story in a letter to the. sick child of her
former private teacher.、The child was so delighted with it that Potter felt
other children would be, too. She was right. The story of naughty Peter,
who always gets into trouble because he does not follow his sisters' example
and obey his mother's rules, was very popular. 、In 1902, the publisher
Frederick Warne & Company printed a commercial edition, and it went on
to become one of the most famous children's books of all time
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Over the next twenty years, Potter wrote and illustrated twenty-two
more books with that publisher, her early_observations of the animals and
plants of her childhood often making their way into the stories. Potter's
The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, published in 1905, for example, includes
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