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The Tale of Peter Rabbit is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter that follows mischievous and disobedient young Peter Rabbit as he gets into, and is chased around, the garden of Mr. McGregor. He escapes and returns home to his mother, who puts him to bed after offering him chamomile tea.
The story concerns how the Flopsy Bunnies, while raiding a rubbish heap of rotting vegetables, fall asleep and are captured by Mr. McGregor who places them in a sack. While McGregor is distracted, the six are freed by Thomasina Tittlemouse, a woodmouse, and the sack is filled with rotten vegetables by Benjamin and Flopsy. At home, Mr. McGregor ...
The book was a commercial success, selling over 260,000 copies in hardcover and paperback. [8] From 1989 to 1997, McKean created the covers for Gaiman's series The Sandman and many of its spin-offs. [9] [10] In 1998, the cover images from The Sandman were released in one volume titled Dustcovers: The Collected Sandman Covers. [11]
The rabbits in Potter's stories are anthropomorphic and wear human clothes: Peter wears a blue jacket with brass buttons and shoes. Peter, his widowed mother, Mrs. Rabbit, as well as his younger sisters, Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail (with Peter the eldest of the four little rabbits) live in a rabbit hole that has a human kitchen, human furniture, as well as a shop where Mrs. Rabbit sells ...
PDFCreator is an application for converting documents into Portable Document Format format on Microsoft Windows operating systems. It works by creating a virtual printer that prints to PDF files, and thereby allows practically any application to create PDF files by choosing to print from within the application and then printing to the PDFCreator printer.
John Hassel's illustration for the early editions of Wee Macgreegor. Wee Macgreegor (properly called Macgregor Robinson and sometimes spelt "Wee Macgregor") is a character created in newspaper short stories and books written by the Scottish journalist and author, John Joy Bell , first appearing in the Glasgow Evening Times in 1901.
These 11 books were all published by McGraw-Hill and illustrated by Charles Geer: Miss Pickerell on the Moon, by Ellen MacGregor and Dora Pantell, illus. Geer (McGraw Hill, 1965) Miss Pickerell Goes on a Dig (1966) Miss Pickerell Harvests the Sea (1968) Miss Pickerell and the Weather Satellite (1971) Miss Pickerell Meets Mr. H.U.M. (1971)
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