Volume 37, Number 10 · June 14, 1990
Life After Squirrel Nutkin
By Janet Adam Smith
Beatrix Potter's Letters
selected by Judy Taylor
Viking Penguin, 478 pp., $29.95
The Journal of Beatrix Potter, 1881–1897
transcribed from her code writings by Leslie Linder, foreword by Judy Taylor
Viking Penguin, 468 pp., $29.95
Very winsome are Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddleduck, Squirrel Nutkin, and other Beatrix Potter creations as they appear on the mugs and porridge plates on sale in National Trust shops. Delightfully quaint were the mice from the Tailor of Gloucester in eighteenth-century costume that last Christmas made the window display at Hamley's toyshop on Regent Street.
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