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She wrote the majority of the twenty-three Original Peter Rabbit Books between 1901 and 1913. The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Frederick Warne, 1902) is her most famous and best-loved tale.\r\n\r\nBeatrix began drawing at an early age. By the age of eight she was filling homemade sketchbooks with scientific studies of animals, insects and flowers. Beatrix's parents, Rupert and Helen, nurtured and encouraged Beatrix's extraordinary artistic talent and power of observation. From the age of twelve to seventeen Beatrix was tutored in art by a Miss Cameron and took a formal qualification, the Second Grade Art Student's Certificate, in July 1881. During this period Beatrix produced several conventional still lifes and flower paintings. 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