Miss Cherity. Murai M.

On the fourth floor of the London mansion, Little Cherity Tidder lives. On the calendar is the end of the 19th century, and, therefore, all the goals in the life of the young lady are predetermined: decent education - singing, dancing, music, drawing, embroidery - and successful marriage. But at all times, girls who are more interesting to study the world and its inhabitants are born than to dress up and hunt for husbands. Cherity - of those. From an early age she lives lonely, but not boring at all. After all, there are so many interesting things around: toads, and mice, and snails, and hedgehogs, and birds... Thanks to the curiosity, sanity and sense of humor, as well as the masterful possession of Cheriti watercolor, it becomes a children's writer and illustrator - as the famous Beatrice Potter, whose life Inspired by Marie-Od Murai to create this novel.

The second edition with the illustrations of Philip Dumas.