Beatrix Potter (1866 – 1943) was an English author, illustrator, and conservationist, best known for her children's books featuring Peter Rabbit and other animal characters.
This official Peter Rabbit site from Penguin Books is my Beatrix Potter pick of the day.
Project Gutenberg hosts twenty, free Beatrix Potter ebooks in three formats: HTML with original illustrations, plain old ASCII text, and Plucker for use on a Palm device.
Wired for Books has a collection of nine illustrated Beatrix Potter stories in English and Japanese, and a handful of audio books in English, French, German and Japanese.
"Beatrix Potter was considered an amateur artist by some because of her lack of training, but her natural affection for animals and rich imagination made up for any deficiencies she may have had and manifested themselves through her illustrations."
"A product of Victorian times, she [Beatrix Potter] far surpassed societal expectations of women of her era and class..."
