Beatrix Potter's work is delightful. I'm not sure what makes it so. Certainly the plots of The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin and The Tale of Two Bad Mice are silly at best. The illustrations are charming. Altogether, though, the books (particularly when read in their little square book form), transcend silly and charming and are enchanting classics: the best rodent media I've read or watched so far this year.
Illustration from the original via The Gutenberg Project.
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I love her illustrations - whenever I see editions with new illustrations I just wonder - What's the point.
Also - those were my two favorite BP stories growing up.
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