A Chapter of Work
How the Books Were Born
Every famous tale began as something smaller.
A letter to a sick child, a sketch in a notebook, a story told to pass the time. This is how her little books came to be.
The Self-Published Peter Rabbit: When She Printed It HerselfTurned down by publisher after publisher, Beatrix Potter printed Peter Rabbit herself in 1901 — 250 copies, out of her own pocket. How the classic almost wasn't.The Making of the Beatrix Potter Little BooksThe making of the Beatrix Potter little books was a series of deliberate choices — size, price, 32 pages — that she fought for and never gave up.The Picture Letter to Noel MooreIn 1893 Beatrix Potter sent a picture letter to a sick child named Noel Moore. Eight pages, sixteen sketches — and the story of Peter Rabbit was born.