Beatrix Potter

Squirrel Nutkin would rather ask the old owl riddles than gather nuts with the other squirrels.

In addition to being naughty and losing their company clothes, Tom and his two sisters indulge in rowdy behavior when they are sent upstairs as punishment.

A pussycat has a very unusual tea party for a little dog.

The story of a little mouse's funny house, the visitors she has there, and how she finally rids herself of the untidy, messy ones.

A frog fishing from his lily pad boat doesn't catch any fish, but one catches him.

Unsuspecting Jemima Puddle-Duck foolishly allows the cunning Fox to help her find a "safe" nest. Kep, the barnyard collie, and her pups rescue Jemima Puddle-Duck from the fox's cooking pot.

In The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding, Tom Kitten is a young cat who lives with his mother and sisters in a house overrun with rats. When Tom Kitten stumbles into the home of a rat, Samuel Whiskers, and his wife Anna Maria, Tom Kitten faces the unsettling prospect of getting turned into a their dinner pudding. The thirteenth of Beatrix Potter's 22 charmingly illustrated tales of animals in amusing situations, The Tale of Samuel Whiskers...

A mouse teases Miss Moppet so Miss Moppet thinks she will tease the mouse.

Timmy Tiptoes, a little fat, comfortable grey squirrel, runs into trouble with his fellow squirrels over the hoarding of nuts for the winter.

Beatrix Potter gathered material for a book of rhymes over many years. In 1917, when her publisher was in financial difficulties and needed her help, she suggested that Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes could be brought out quickly, using her existing collection of rhymes and drawings. The fact that the illustrations were painted at different times explains why the style occasionally varies. (Quelle: www.peterrabbit.com).