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Miss Potter is a delicious film, tho' it has a few exciting omissions - the Peter Rabbit letter, her chamber of lichens... But I take you can't shroud a intact time in a brace of hours, specially one as tangled at Beatrix Potter's. I had a dutiful refreshful cry (knowing the outcome, I started lasting until that time each one else!)

Beatrix Potter was fundamentally influential on our girl Rebecca. She had oldest met Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny at more or less one and a partly. By two she constituted the author's name, and would normally order "a Bee-ix Potter" for her time of day fiction.

She enjoyed the characters but utmost of all it was the communication which she revelled in. Goosestepping about the hall she would prayer "Pit pat, propel pat! Pit pat, waddle pat!" (Tom Kitten), or say "fortnight", "camomile tea" or "various articles" to herself - for the sound, not requesting definitions.

Rebecca was terrifically conscious of her own spoken communication industry. At two and two months, soon after she had to finish replaced "yi-bry" near "library", she told our cat: "'ll'. I can say 'll'. When I was a itsy-bitsy miss I had no feelings whatever of 'll'. I took a tremendous bounce off..." and she trailed away, uncovering the remnants of the allude to digressive. Inspired by the cat, she was quoting Benjamin Bunny.

Potter doesn't compromise next to speaking so we didn't either, routinely reading all word. Rebecca dregs turned on just about words, a respect which in all probability started next to Beatrix Potter's stories. What a loss to nipper and fully fledged alike, when they are abridged, and the "hard language" removed!

Rebecca's responses to books (along next to her own clarification as an big) are tape-recorded in Stories, Pictures and Reality: Two family transmit (Routledge 2007). Potter's skin disease feat is in my chapter "Little fur coats of their own" in Clare Bradford's Writing the Australian Child (Uni of W A Press 1996).