Beatrix Potter was born in London in 1866. During her rather lonely childhood and later, as a young woman, she studied art and natural history. She acquired her love and knowledge of the countryside during family holidays, at first in Scotland and then in the Lake District. She started her career as children's author and illustrator in 1901 when she was thirty-five. In the years before the First World War, demand for her work was so great that she was publishing an average of two new stories a year. As she became financially independent, she was able to buy some land in the Lake District and in 1913, on her marriage to solicitor William Heelis, she moved to live there permanently. For the last thirty years of her life, writing and illustrating gave place to a second career as a sheep farmer and countryside conservationist. Conventions: The story is written in proper English. It uses italics, different sizes of font, and occasionally capitalizes every letter in a word to set the tone of the characters. This is a traditional literature book because it’s based on the characters from the classic English Tale of Peter Rabbit, who’s graced the bedsides of generations of kids. Book Summary: Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny come across their friend William (a turkey) and have to break some bad news to him, the McGregor’s are planning on having him for Christmas dinner. Peter and Benjamin work on a plan to save their feathered friend.