The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Written by Beatrix Potter

Penguin Books Ltd., 2002

Genre: Children's picture book; fiction; animal stories

Reading Level: Ages 4-8

70 pages

The Tale of Peter Rabbit is a classic story of a curious little rabbit named Peter, and the scary farmer Mr. McGregor. The book starts out with Peter's mother leaving to go to the baker's and warning Peter and his three siblings that they must not wander into farmer McGregor's garden. Peter's three siblings, the good bunnies, went to pick blackberries but naughty Peter went straight into the farmer's garden to eat lots of good food. Peter begins to feel ill but and decides to look for Parsley but instead runs into Mr. McGregor who chases Peter until he gets stuck into a fence. Peter while running loses his shoes and to get out of the fence, with the help of his friends the sparrows, also loses his jacket. He runs into the tool shed and hides in a watering can until he accidentally sneezes and the farmer chases him out of the window. The farmer gets tired of chasing Peter and goes back to work on the garden. Peter is now stuck in the garden because he can't find the fence he tries several different exits but they all fail, he gets very depressed until he finally sees the gate but Mr. McGregor is in front of it. So Peter runs for it and luckily escapes. Peter gets home ill and tired, his mother puts him to bed, and he doesn't get the delicious dinner.

I would recommend this to any young curious child to help share the consequences of disobeying parents.

I don't see any conflicts that could come with reading this book to a child.

I loved this book as a child and am looking forward to reading it to my child, it has a good moral portrayed in a fun way. The pictures are entertaining and sweet.

My rating: 4 out of 5