Many of Beatrix Potter's sketchbooks and schoolbooks can still be seen today. Most of her drawings were of the pets that she and her brother Bertram kept, and of plants.



Rabbits in snow, artwork by Beatrix Potter at the age of nine.



Birds and flowers, from Beatrix Potter's sketchbook of 1876.

Beatrix Potter's study of twelve different caterpillars, from the Drawing Book (age 8,) 1875.