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The whole family is on full alert when Benjamin and Flopsy Bunny's seven little bunnies are kidnapped by the wily badger, Tommy Brock. Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny track Tommy all the way to the dreadful, mysterious hide-out of the foxy-whiskered and thoroughly disagreeable Mr. Tod.Tags
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Tommy Brock (a badger) has stolen Benjamin Bunny's babies and intends to eat them! Shocking premise for a children's tale, not to mention elder abuse. Nature is not always pretty, and Ms. Potter was tired of writing only the pretty stuff. As always, her mingling of human traits and animal characteristics is masterfully done so that you learn much of animal behaviour without feeling that you are being taught.
Of all the Potter stories, I think that this one was one of the most disturbing. I can't even imagine what I would do if someone stole my children with the intent of making them their next meal. Of course, in the end, all is well and good.
If your children love Peter Rabbit, then they will love this one! This book is about rabbit parents losing their rabbit babies because they got stolen right under their noses. Peter Rabbit helps his cousin find and bring back the rabbit babies. This a good story for the whole family!
this one reads like a cannibal killer horror tale!
I adore Beatrix Potter!
Children's fiction. Just for fun, and because I said I'd list all the books I read. This book had been read to me (probably many times) before this year (2001).
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(Helen) Beatrix Potter, 1866 - 1943 (Helen) Beatrix Potter was born in 1866 in London where she was privately educated. During most of her adult life, she lived in a farm cottage in Sawrey, Westmoreland County. She was unsuccessful in trying to publish her serious botanical work, watercolor studies of fungi, but she wrote and privately published show more "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" for an invalid child in 1900. This story became a children's classic throughout the world. Other animal characters created by her include, Benjamin Bunny, Jemima Puddle-Duck, and Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle. Her tales are illustrated by her own hand in delicate and detailed watercolor pictures depicting her characters. Potter's other works include "The Tailor of Gloucester" published in 1902 and "The Tale of Tom Kitten" published in 1907. At her death in 1943, she bequeathed her property in Sawrey to the National Trust, which also maintains her home as a museum. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- The Tale of Mr. Tod
- Original publication date
- 1912
- People/Characters
- Mr. Tod; Tommy Brock
- Related movies
- The Tale of Mr. Tod (1995 | IMDb); The Tale of Mr. Tod (1966 | IMDb)
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