The Tailor of Gloucester (Picture Book)

by Beatrix Potter

Overview

The Tailor of Gloucester was written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, privately printed by the author in 1902, and published in a trade edition by Frederick Warne & Co. in October 1903. The story is about a tailor whose work on a waistcoat is finished by the grateful mice he rescues from his cat and was based on a real world incident involving a tailor and his assistants. For years, Potter declared that of all her books it was her personal favorite.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781987010787
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	10/02/2016
Series:	Classic Picture Books , #13
Pages:	70
Sales rank:	804,884
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.15(d)
Age Range:	6 - 8 Years

About the Author

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 wrote 23 children's books in addition to coloring or painting books.