Deborah Hopkinson

Pub­lished to hon­or the 150th anniver­sary of her birth, this sto­ry stars a young Beat­rix Pot­ter, cre­ator of The Tale of Peter Rab­bit and many oth­er clas­sic children’s books.
 
Mas­ter of the his­tor­i­cal fic­tion pic­ture book, Hop­kin­son takes read­ers back to Vic­to­ri­an Eng­land and the home of bud­ding young artist and ani­mal lover Beat­rix Pot­ter. When Beat­rix brings home her neighbor’s pet guinea pig so that she can prac­tice paint­ing it, well … it dies! Now what?
 
Writ­ten in the form of a “pic­ture let­ter,” this charm­ing, hilar­i­ous, and most­ly true tale is a won­der­ful intro­duc­tion to a beloved author/illustrator.

An author’s note includes pho­tographs and more infor­ma­tion about Beat­rix Pot­ter’s life and work.