“Don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.”

— Beatrix Potter, book The Tale of Peter Rabbit

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

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English children's writer and illustrator 1866–1943

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