Beatrix Potter
Hardcover | Pages: 72 pages Rating: 4.18 | 194986 Users | 1898 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Tale of Peter Rabbit (The World of Beatrix Potter: Peter Rabbit) |
| Author | : | Beatrix Potter |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 72 pages |
| Published | : | March 7th 2002 by Warne (first published December 16th 1901) |
| Categories | : | Childrens. Classics. Picture Books. Fiction |
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In this original edition, Peter and his sisters are told to go gather blackberries and not to go into MacGregor's garden because Peter's father was made into a pie by MacGregor after being found in the garden. Peter, who is wearing a new coat, promptly disobeys his mother, stuffs himself with vegetables, gets spotted by MacGregor, loses his coat and barely makes it out of the garden alive. When Peter gets home, he is given chamomile tea for dinner. Peter's sisters, who listened to their mother and stayed out of the forbidden garden have a regular dinner.Point Books During The Tale of Peter Rabbit (The World of Beatrix Potter: Peter Rabbit)
| Original Title: | The Tale of Peter Rabbit |
| ISBN: | 0723247706 (ISBN13: 9780723247708) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The World of Beatrix Potter: Peter Rabbit |
| Characters: | Peter Rabbit, Peter Rabbit, Flopsy Rabbit, Mopsy Rabbit, Cotton-tail Rabbit, Mrs. Rabbit, Mr. McGregor |
| Setting: | Lake District, Cumbria, England |
| Literary Awards: | Lewis Carroll Shelf Award (1958) |
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Peter Rabbit breaks the social contract by eating his neighbors vegetables. As Peter is hounded for his crimes, he rapidly loses the trappings of society - his shoes and his clothes - until hes returned to his primal animal state, naked, shivering, driven out, an anthropomorphized JG Ballard. He cant find the gate that will lead him from the garden of sin back to his safe home. After he finally escapes, hes ostracized by his family and hung in effigy in the garden as a warning. Beatrix PottersSo I think Manny and Beth-Ann have it spot on. Peter Rabbit dies in this book, and his escape is a moment-of-death fantasy. Peter is the Peyton Farquhar of kids books. Farquhar, for those who don't remember, is the Alabama Confederate (gentleman farmer / non-combatant) from Ambrose Bierce's An Occurence on Owl Creek Bridge. He's strung up to a railroad bridge to be hanged by the Union soldiers, but his rope breaks and he pulls of a miraculous escape, only to have his escape end with him still on
Another favorite of my children.
Why do we read certain children's booksand remember them all the days of our lives?I know for me...there is something about the sweet, safe, cozy place, that these classic books occupy in memory, short term - and long term memory, for I can truly declare that I have recalled the lines of Beatrix Potter at many times in my life, high school mid terms, college finals, marriage vows (yep!) and I now deeply know that the simple perfect truths bestowed in these adorable books, whether in rhyme or
Boys will be boys.A beautifully illustrated children's tale about naughty boy rabbits and very good girl rabbits. Deep down there is nothing beyond that, and it is clearly a way of teaching good manners and behaviour, BUT the legend of Beatrix Potter and her little bunnies takes precedence and I do not mind that.The story itself is fine: a short, little tale of a naughty little bunny. It is quite twee, as a lot of things were in those days, and I wouldn't think most children would be fooled by
This story reminds me my childhood. I still remember I used to do things from which my mama forbades me. Just like Peter rabbit. Her mother tells him not to go to Mr. McGregor's farm. But as he is a naughty rabbit, He still goes and faces troubles. I liked the names of four rabbits:Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter. Aren't they cute? Especially first two. (^_^)March 3, 2017
The Tale of Peter Rabbit (The World of Beatrix Potter: Peter Rabbit), Beatrix PotterThe story focuses on a family of anthropomorphic rabbits. The widowed mother rabbit keeps her four rabbit children, Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail and Peter from entering the vegetable garden of a man named Mr. McGregor. Her triplets (Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail) obediently refrain from entering the garden, but Peter enters the garden to snack on some vegetables. Peter ends up eating more than what is good for him
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