Timeless Tales of Beatrix Potter

by Beatrix Potter

[Amber (The Literary Phoenix)]

So nobody really talks about it anymore, and I don’t know any friends who have read these tales to their children, but Beatrix Potter is such a classic. These short tidbits, written over a hundred years ago, are so familiar today. It was such strange nostalgia going back not just to childhood favorites, but to stories I remember having read to me, and the memory of illustrated collections we used to have.

I’m going to try something a bit different here, because this is a collection of very short children’s stories. So, rather than try to summarize the collection as a whole, let’s talk (very) briefly about each one. I’m going to rate them story-by-story, and then just give you an overall averaged rating at the end, rather than do a full breakdown like usual.