The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies

by Beatrix Potter

Overview

Beatrix Potter's Classic Children's Stories in beautiful eBook editions The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies is set in Beatrix Potter's world of Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny. In this story, Benjamin Bunny's children, the Flopsy Bunnies, eat too many lettuces from Mr. McGregor's garden that they become sleepy and are almost turned into a rabbit pie.
The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies by Beatrix Potter is part of the Xist Publishing Children's Classics collection.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781532400193
Publisher:	Xist Publishing
Publication date:	09/09/2016
Pages:	56
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.15(d)
Age Range:	4 - 7 Years

About the Author

Beatrix Potter was born to a wealthy family in London and was raised by governesses instead of attending school with other children. She loved animals and had many pets, including rabbits. Beatrix spent many long holidays in the country and began to sketch and then watercolor animals, plants and landscapes. She studied art in the late 1870s at the National Art Training School and her first commercial success was selling art used in greeting cards. The Tale of Peter Rabbit began as a letter she wrote and illustrated to the children of one of her former governesses. Beatrix later transformed it into a book, which she published privately. The enchanting story was published in 1902 by Frederich Warne & Co. and readers everywhere were captivated by the tale of a mischievous bunny. Beatrix Potter went on to write more than twenty children's stories. She used the proceeds from her books to buy Hill Top Farm and other nearby land to preserve the unique hill country landscape. She died on December 22nd, 1943 at her home at age 77, leaving almost all her property to the National Trust. She is credited with preserving much of the land that now constitutes the Lake District National Park. Potter's books continue to sell throughout the world in many languages with her stories being retold in song, film, ballet, and animation, and her life depicted in a feature film and television film.

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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is "soporific". I have never felt sleepy after eating lettuces; but then I am not a rabbit.

They certainly had a very soporific effect upon the Flopsy Bunnies!

(Continues…)

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Editorial Reviews

PreS-Gr 1—The classic stories have been newly illustrated in a larger format. Rasmussen's illustrations emulate the delicacy and intricacy of the animal world that Beatrix Potter originated while at the same time reflecting certain human characteristics through the subtleties of facial expression. The texts are in an accessible large font against a white background bordered by a thin pale green border. Pictures are both interspersed within the text and also full page on the same pale green background. Still, Potter's work in the original Warne publications remains the standard for these stories. Biographical information about Potter and her legacy is appended.—Rita Soltan, Youth Services Consultant, West Bloomfield, MI

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