At what age can a child first enjoy Beatrix Potter?

Richard, while every child is different, I don't think it's too early at all. I bought the series of Potter books for my daughter when she was one, she's two and a half now. I have to say, my daughter doesn't like them and after reading them to her, I find them rather boring and awful. For some reason I remembered them as being quaint and sweet... just not so. While the Winnie The Pooh series seems like it's for a much older child (lack of pictures, more sophisticated story lines, etc.) my daughter has been loving those since she was a year old and can't seem to get enough of them. Bill Peet's children's books have also been a VERY big hit in our house (beautiful illustrations and great language.) If you're taken in by the size and having something by a self-taught artist that speaks to young girls, you might take a look at Cicely Mary Barker. She's done beautiful little books of flower and tree fairies with lovely poems. (I've heard a story that when she was a little girl she lived down the road from a woman who owned a farm who was very mean and she seemed to just hate children... turns out that was Beatrix Potter.)

But, 3 1/2 is none too early for B. Potter.

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