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The Tale of Peter Rabbit is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter that follows mischievous and disobedient young Peter Rabbit as he gets into, and is chased around, the garden of Mr. McGregor. He escapes and returns home to his mother, who puts him to bed after offering him chamomile tea.
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The rabbits in Potter's stories are anthropomorphic and wear human clothes: Peter wears a blue jacket with brass buttons and shoes. Peter, his widowed mother, Mrs. Rabbit, as well as his younger sisters, Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail (with Peter the eldest of the four little rabbits) live in a rabbit hole that has a human kitchen, human furniture, as well as a shop where Mrs. Rabbit sells ...
Peter Rabbit cartoon, 1922. Cady's Peter Rabbit comic strip, which was based on Thornton Burgess' Peter Cottontail stories [2] (as opposed to Beatrix Potter's version) was launched by the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate on August 15, 1920. He continued to write and draw the strip for almost three decades.
Each episode opens up with a live-action Beatrix Potter, portrayed by actress Niamh Cusack, coming to her farmhouse out of the rain, either after finishing a watercolour painting and running home with her pet dog, Kep, or after doing the shopping in town and hitching a ride home on a horse-drawn vehicle, sitting down to some tea with her pet rabbit, Peter, and then setting up the featured story.
Peter Rabbit may also refer to: The Tale of Peter Rabbit, 1902 tale by Beatrix Potter "Peter Rabbit", a 1966 single by Dee Jay and the Runaways; Peter Rabbit, 2012 TV series; Peter Rabbit, 2018 film; Peter Rabbit, a character in the children's books by Thornton W. Burgess; Peter Rabbit, comic strip by Harrison Cady; Peter Douthit, poet who ...