We’re all familiar with “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” by Beatrix Potter. Peter Rabbit ventures into Mr. McGregor’s garden despite explicitly being told not to by his mother. His sisters, Mopsy, Flopsy ...

She created one of the world’s best-known characters for children, and fought to have the book published, but she never sought celebrity status. Beatrix Potter around 1900 outside her home. Though The ...

Beatrix Potter, an author who is known for children’s stories like "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" and died in 1943, is being accused of taking her stories from African slave tales. Dr. Emily Zobel ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A story by much-loved children's author Beatrix Potter, written more than a century ago, is to be published for the first time after the ...

Many teen-agers will go to great lengths to keep their diaries private—I kept a little key for mine in a wooden jewelry box, which I guarded jealously—but the children’s book author Beatrix Potter ...

A lecturer at a college university in England accused a beloved children’s book author of stealing stories from African slaves. On May 19, Dr. Emily Zobel Marshall from Leeds Beckett University ...

To mark 120 years since the publication of Beatrix Potter’s much-loved children’s classic, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Penguin Random House Children’s has launched Grow With Peter Rabbit in partnership ...

Britain’s brief but fertile Edwardian period was a golden age of children’s literature. The first decade of the 20th century saw the stage premiere of J.M. Barrie’s “Peter Pan” and the publication of ...

THE JOURNAL OF BEATRIX POTTER transcribed from her code writing by Leslie Under. 448 pages. Frederick Warne. $12.95. Once upon a time there was a shy little girl and her name was Beatrix. She lived ...

Maureen Kirk wanted something less juvenile for her guest room. The wallpaper adorned with pink ribbons and bows was coming down and a neutral cream color was going up. Then Mother Rabbit appeared, ...

Academy Award-winning actress Emma Thompson is writing a new "Peter Rabbit" story. The book is to be published by Penguin in September 2012. Penguin announced Thursday the book will be called "The ...