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The timeless joy of Beatrix Potter; With her rabbits, mice, squirrels and lots of other animals, Beatrix Potter created a special place where everyone could live for a little while. Now her world has come to Liverpool.(Features)

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From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Date: 20041019
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Byline: David Charters

THE logs glow low in the hearth and the smoke meanders up the chimney in beards and wisps and all the shapes of the imagination.

And these images hold back the yawns of the slippered children sitting on the couch, blowing dips into the top of their hot cocoa, as they wait for mum or dad to pull a slim volume from the bookcase.

``Oh, please read the story of . . . '' Squalls of rain sting the window-panes. But soon people and creatures from long ago will appear to us again, as real as the thumb-marks on the page, in this endless resurrection of ...

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