Although the recommended age range is 4 to 8, I can speak from our own family's experience that 2 is not to young to start learning from the richness of the prose; neither is 63 to old to be enchanted all over again by the animal characters drawn upon her days living in the pastoral region of Lake Windermere, England. One can picture Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddleduck and friends in the ponds, woods and hedgerows of that gentle region. I had several of the small Beatrix Potter books as a child. The stories enchanted me, and ...
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Although the recommended age range is 4 to 8, I can speak from our own family's experience that 2 is not to young to start learning from the richness of the prose; neither is 63 to old to be enchanted all over again by the animal characters drawn upon her days living in the pastoral region of Lake Windermere, England. One can picture Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddleduck and friends in the ponds, woods and hedgerows of that gentle region. I had several of the small Beatrix Potter books as a child. The stories enchanted me, and the books were just the right size for my hands. This book is much bigger. It also includes more stories than my original collection--nineteen. It is easy to find the Peter Rabbit stories and some of the others in the small books--but some of the stories in this book (such as the wonderful 'The Story Of A Fierce Bad Rabbit') I've never seen for sale in individual form. So, if you loved these stories as a child or if you want to introduce them to a child in your life, this large and beautiful book is a good choice.
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