Today we met with the fourth and fifth graders at Jefferson Elementary School that will be helping to build our sandcastle for the Leap competition. The theme of the competition this year is classic children's books. In preparation for meeting the kids today I went to my local branch library, Sunset. It didn't take long for me to spot the Beatrix Potter books about Peter Rabbit and for me to remember how much I liked those beautifully illustrated stories. Perhaps those books influenced my preservationist tendencies. Beatrix Potter donated 4,000 acres in the Lake District of England to the National Trust.
