Beatrix Potter

Current prices are recorded from antiques shows, flea markets, sales and auctions throughout the United States. Prices vary in different locations because of local economic conditions. "Little Cub Scout" book, by Mabel Watts, illustrated by William...

Not everything in childhood is bowls of mush and little old ladies whispering "Hush," and Maurice Sendak understood that. Our children understand that, too. Instinctively. That's what makes his books, like "Where the Wild Things Are" and "In the Night...

Soho House chef Matthew Armistead and his wife, Shelley, the club's general manager, live life lush and low-key in their Mar Vista home....

Plaudits, not sprinklers, were flowing this week when the Heal the Bay president, a Surfrider Foundation policy director, a vice mayor and water company general manager gathered in the garden of a Long Beach handyman to ooh and aah over......

If you are considering converting part of your yard, patio or even the edges of your front steps into a kitchen garden this spring, it merits checking Rosalind Creasy’s “Edible Landscaping” (Sierra Club, 2010) out of the library. While...

Says Ezra Callahan, a former Facebook employee: "True story: in the very early days of Facebook, Sean Parker wanted to make Facebook's mascot a hedgehog. We had early plans to build a local business program around each college on the site (a Yelp-like...

LOS ANGELES — Pat McInally never tires of reminders that he is the only NFL prospect to record a perfect score on the Wonderlic intelligence test. "It's intellectual annuity," he says. The Harvard-educated McInally, in fact, has gained far greater...

A valuable collection of children's literature, including Alice's own copy of "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There," a first edition of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and Beatrix Potter's personal copy of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" will......

Gerrick Kennedy is back with another contribution to the Hero Complex with a report on an interesting artifact that once belonged to the "real" Alice of "Alice in Wonderland" fame... Former NFL player Pat McInally went down the rabbit hole......

Every Monday we post a new home whose design is presented in the architect or interior designer's own words. This week: Designer: Michael Ostrow, Grace Home Furnishings, Los Angeles Location: Pacific Palisades Goals: to create a stylish and comfortable...

“The Tale of Peter Rabbit” by Beatrix Potter turned up this spring on the list of the London Telegraph’s “20 Greatest Children’s Books Ever.” There’s something enduring and endearing about the rabbit’s harr...