title: The Tale of Johnny Town-mouse (Peter Rabbit)
author:  Beatrix Potter 
description: Beatrix Potter loved the countryside and spent much of her childhood drawing and studying animals. The Tale of Peter Rabbit published in 1902, was her first book, expanded from an illustrated letter she had sent to a young friend. Beatrix Potter went on to publish more than 20 tales and collections of rhymes.
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  Beatrix Potter loved the countryside and she spent much of her otherwise
  conventional Victorian childhood drawing and studying animals. Her passion for
  the natural world lay behind the creation of her famous series of little
  books. A particular source of inspiration was the English Lake District where
  she lived for the last thirty years of her life as a farmer and land
  conservationist, working with the National Trust.
  
  
  
  
  
  _The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse_ is based on an Aesop Fable, but Beatrix Potter
  sets the story in the Lake District. The town mouse, Johnny, lives under the
  floorboards of a house in Hawkshead, and the country mouse, Timmy Willie, in a
  cottage garden. As she confesses at the end, the author's sympathies lie with
  the country mouse.
  
  
  
  
  
  [www.peterrabbit.com](http://www.peterrabbit.com)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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