The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter, By Beatrix Potter, New Edition, 19 Classic Tales of the Countryside, 1.THE TALE OF PETER RABBIT, 2.THE TAILOR OF GLOUCESTER, 3.THE TALE OF SQUIRREL NUTKIN, 4.THE TALE OF BENJAMIN BUNNY, 5.THE TALE OF TWO BAD MICE, 6.THE TALE OF MRS. TIGGY-WINKLE, 7.THE PIE AND THE PATTY-PAN, 8.THE TALE OF MR. JEREMY FISHER, 9.THE STORY OF A FIERCE BAD RABBIT, 10.THE STORY OF MISS MOPPET, 11.THE TALE OF TOM KITTEN, 12.THE TALE OF JEMIMA PUDDLE-DUCK, 13.THE ROLY-POLY PUDDING, 14.THE TALE OF THE FLOPSY BUNNIES, 15.THE TALE OF MRS. TITTLEMOUSE, 16.THE TALE OF TIMMY TIPTOES, 17.THE TALE OF MR. TOD, 18.THE TALE OF PIGLING BLAND, 19.GINGER AND PICKLES, Beatrix Potter (born Helen Beatrix Potter; 28 July 1866 - 22 December 1943) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children's books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life. Born into a wealthy Unitarian family, Potter, along with her younger brother, Walter Bertram (1872-1918), grew up with few friends outside her large, extended family. Her parents were artistic, interested in nature and enjoyed the countryside. As children, Beatrix and Bertram had numerous small animals as pets which they observed closely and drew endlessly. Summer holidays were spent away from London, in Scotland and in the English Lake District where Beatrix developed a love of the natural world which was the subject of her painting from an early age. She was educated by private governesses until she was eighteen. Her study of languages, literature, science and history was broad and she was an eager student. Her artistic talents were recognized early. She enjoyed private art lessons, and developed her own style, favouring watercolour. Along with her drawings of her animals, real and imagined, she illustrated insects, fossils, archaeological artefacts, and fungi. In the 1890s her mycological illustrations and research on the reproduction of fungi spores generated interest from the scientific establishment. Following some success illustrating cards and booklets, Potter wrote and illustrated The Tale of Peter Rabbit publishing it first privately in 1901, and a year later as a small, three-colour illustrated book with Frederick Warne & Co. She became unofficially engaged to her editor Norman Warne in 1905 despite the disapproval of her parents, but he died suddenly a month later, of leukemia.,