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Beatrix Potter (1866 – 1943) Helen Beatrix Potter was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist best known for her childrens books featuring animals. She was interested in every branch of natural science save astronomy. Botany was a passion for most Victorians and nature study was a popular enthusiasm. Beatrix loved collecting fossils, studying archaeological artefacts from London excavations, and interested in entomology. In all these areas she drew and painted her specimens with increasing skill. By the 1890s her scientific interests centred on mycology. First drawn to fungi because of their colours and evanescence in nature and her delight in painting them. Curious as to how fungi reproduced, she began microscopic drawings of fungus spores (the agarics) and in 1895 developed a theory of their germination. The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse First Published in 1918 By Frederic Warne To Aesop in the shadows The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse Johnny Town-mouse was born in a cupboard. Timmie Willie, a country mouse, was born in a garden. The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse Timmie Willie was a little country mouse who went to town by mistake in a hamper. The gardener sent vegetables to town once a week by carrier; he packed them in a big hamper. The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse The gardener left the hamper by the garden gate, so that the carrier could pick it up when he passed. The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse Timmie Willie crept in through a hole in the wicker-work, and after eating some peas, Timmie Willie fell fast asleep. The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse He awoke in a fright, while the hamper w