#beatrix potter's stories

[black-and-yellow]

When I'm in a Car

saw Mic in my dream and he looked like this

[syfien]

Just went to the Beatrix Potter experience/museum by Lake Windermere. Such cute models of the characters but my fav is the utterly mental cat

[miscellaneoustenten]

Super fresh tattoo! I’m the cat’s pajamas!

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

"There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you." - Beatrix Potter (born: 28 July 1866)

[readingwithmercy]

Here is the story of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter. Enjoy!

[lupinecones]

can you still be considered a fictive if you are not from one specific character? can you still call yourself a fictive if you are from a universe/world but not a "canon" character?

[novlr]

Did you know?

The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter was rejected by multiple publishers. She believed in her work, and in 1901 she self published 250 copies which sold so quickly she had to print another 200.

The book was officially acquired by Frederick Warne & Co. in 1902, who was one of the publishers who had originally rejected it. It is now one of the most beloved children's books of all time.

[lewmagoo]

i love telling stories to kids and i was reading one to kindergarten for library time and i was so animated with my story that someone thought i was a parent shouting angrily at a teacher, lmaooo. guess i was a little too into the story i was telling

[thecount03]

Fang finds himself reading his stories to Trip whenever there's downtime on Northstar Islands though he can't understand why the lizard likes them, they're just silly things like stories based on the pockies that used to drive his Pa nuts by digging up the garden.

[you-have-been-frizzled]

So I’ve read a couple little house and all the Anne books. There’s a stark difference in how they’re written, at least for the first of each series. Little house seems to be a lot more moralistic (you must obey or else you get punished and there is no doubt you deserve that punishment, 6 year old) and when Laura’s not getting punished, everything is going absolutely great.

The Anne books are written much more for children (at least for the first couple ones, after like 3 I’m pretty sure l.m just liked Anne too much to stop writing about her). They’re about her hijinks, and when she’s punished it’s never really painted as the necessary. Most of the aogg book is marrilla shaking her head at what Anne’s done this time. But Anne very rarely gets punished, and that’s so much more kid friendly. The Anne books treat her like a person who’s learning to person, not like some little Angel who occasionally decides that her entire family should just get screwed.

Kids don’t generally wanna read about Laura breaking the sabbath to go sledding and getting hit for that. That’s something a lot of kids would do, because they’re kids. They wouldn’t understand why laura basically ever needed to get punished. And if they are old enough to recognize what she’s done wrong, they also know that it’s unfair to punish her for something she didn’t know was wrong. Kids wanna read about Anne getting Diana drunk on accident, because that’s funny and she doesn’t get punished for it, at least not by someone painted as the person in charge who can do no wrong.

Also one of the little house books mentions a girl getting married at 13? And it’s not treated as anything concerning? Despite people viewing marriage as a survival tactic for a long time, and 13 year olds marrying is so obviously not good for their health that people have known it forever.

little house is an autobiography of sorts, so it’s more of an adult looking back at her childhood and writing about it as it was, with a adults thought process on the events and writing them in a child friendly way, while as far as i’m aware Anne is just fictional and is definitely more child friendly as you said

though while my mom loved the little house books i never really liked them i found them boring pretty much for the reasons you pointed out, also no one was like dying, orphaned, or solving mysteries. i really did enjoy Anne and the Mandy books which where similar in nature. so you are definitely right on which one kids would enjoy more

as for the marriage thing, historical books tend to be like that especially the older ones, also it hasn’t been forever it’s only been about 60 years if not less, (i’ve heard lots of stories about grandparents getting married when the grandma was 14-16) and Laura Ingalls Wilder been dead for about that long.

[sinnamon-squared]

i don’t think enough people know about beatrix potter’s art and that’s honestly a crime

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

"There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you." - Beatrix Potter (Died: 22 December 1943)

[ectogeranium]

Oh, to be a little mouse in a Beatrix Potter poem....

[withsomejam]

The TBR Shelf

Before the new year begins, I wanted to share my To-Be-Read shelf. Not the whole thing of course. As I previously mentioned in my Book-Buying-Ban post here, the number of books on my shelves that I haven’t read is embarrassingly large so I won’t share all the titles; but I was thinking of sharing those that really stand out on my shelf. The House of Sorrowing Stars by Beth Cartwright is one I’m…

[jevilowo]

Fanon Beatrix Potter:

I shall write lovely stories for the children the read

Canon Beatrix Potter:

Trauma be upon ye

[paleode-ology]

I am going to lose my mind oh my god okay so when I was younger we had the complete tales of Beatrix potter as a very large hardcover book. It had all the illustrations in it and I remember very specifically the cover was a light blue and I cannot find the same one anywhere online??? Like did I imagine it????? What the heck