Hill Top House (Calendar)
by Beatrix Potter
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This unique Beatrix Potter advent calendar comes flat-packed in a plastic bag. The contents fold out (no glue required ) into a beautiful 3-D card model of Hill Top, the farmhouse that features in many of Beatrix Potter's tales. There are 24 windows, doors and other little flaps to open throughout December to reveal enchanting Beatrix Potter characters within, so that by Christmas the farmhouse is alive with scenes of celebration. This publication will tie in with the National Trust's show more centenary of the real Hill Top Farm in the Lake District, which Beatrix Potter bought in 1905. show lessTags
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(Helen) Beatrix Potter, 1866 - 1943 (Helen) Beatrix Potter was born in 1866 in London where she was privately educated. During most of her adult life, she lived in a farm cottage in Sawrey, Westmoreland County. She was unsuccessful in trying to publish her serious botanical work, watercolor studies of fungi, but she wrote and privately published show more "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" for an invalid child in 1900. This story became a children's classic throughout the world. Other animal characters created by her include, Benjamin Bunny, Jemima Puddle-Duck, and Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle. Her tales are illustrated by her own hand in delicate and detailed watercolor pictures depicting her characters. Potter's other works include "The Tailor of Gloucester" published in 1902 and "The Tale of Tom Kitten" published in 1907. At her death in 1943, she bequeathed her property in Sawrey to the National Trust, which also maintains her home as a museum. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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