The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit

This is the weirdest Beatrix Potter book. Although her illustrations are as charming as ever, the story definitely isn't. A crazed hunter stalks and eventually shoots the tail off a mischievous bunny. It's like Potter temporarily lost her mind when she wrote this. It's not entertaining, and it's not for impressionable readers.

Note: I read the miniature edition of The Story Of A Fierce Bad Rabbit from The Original Peter Rabbit Miniature Collection 5 box - this is the same as the normal book but smaller - the ISBN on the back of the book links to this book page.

This is barely a story at all. As usual the drawings are beautiful, but that's all it has going for it. There are two rabbits, a good rabbit and a bad rabbit. The good rabbit is referred to as 'it', while the bad rabbit is referred to as 'he' so that's weird. The bad rabbit beats up the good rabbit for a carrot and then gets shot by a very poor-sighted bird hunter. It's clearly just a moral tale, as these usually are, but with no imagination. But if the bad rabbit hadn't beaten up the good rabbit, then show more it would have been the good rabbit who got shot, so what kind of moral is that? Besides, Potter had already written a book about an animal who loses their tail as punishment for being naughty so it's not even a new idea! Lame.

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Note: I read the miniature edition of The Story Of A Fierce Bad Rabbit from The Original Peter Rabbit Miniature Collection 5 box - this is the same as the normal book but smaller - the ISBN on the back of the book links to this book page.

This is barely a story at all. As usual the drawings are beautiful, but that's all it has going for it. There are two rabbits, a good rabbit and a bad rabbit. The good rabbit is referred to as 'it', while the bad rabbit is referred to as 'he' so that's weird. The bad rabbit beats up the good rabbit for a carrot and then gets shot by a very poor-sighted bird hunter. It's clearly just a moral tale, as these usually are, but with no imagination. But if the bad rabbit hadn't beaten up the good rabbit, then it would have been the good rabbit who got shot, so what kind of moral is that? Besides, Potter had already written a book about an animal who loses their tail as punishment for being naughty so it's not even a new idea! Lame. show less

This is a story about a mean bully of a rabbit that steals a nice rabbits carrot that it recieved from its mother.

I enjoyed the book very much because of the small amount of witty text on opposite pages from the illustrations. This book also has a moral to it. That moral being that you should not steal from others unless you want karma to take a bite out of you.

This is a fully illustrated short story book about a couple of a rabbits, one good and one a nasty one who bullies the good rabbit. The bad rabbit attacks the Good rabbit and steals his carrot. In turn, the fierce rabbit ended up with losing tails and whiskers when a hunter approached him.

Though short, it's a good book for young kids, equip with moral nurturing story and a fully illustrated pages to company the story. Most kids would love this book, but personally when I was one, I love a bit more longer of a story than this one.

Interesting little story! The fierce bad rabbit in this story steals a carrot, and in a (seemingly) unrelated incident, gets spotted by a man with a gun, who shoots the rabbit. The fierce bad rabbit gets away, but not with his whiskers and tail. Unusual "punishment" for his stealing ways.

The best book about manners ever. I just love the illustrations and the bad rabbit. Hee! Fierce!

The fierce rabbit takes the good rabbit’s carrot and scratches him. He is seen by the hunter, however, and his tail and whiskers get shot off as he runs away. He also loses the carrot.