Beatrix Potter's illustrations to “Peter Rabbit” (original) (raw)

Biographical Materials

• Biographical introduction
• Choronology
• Beatrix Potter’s Artistic Book Illustration

Works

• [Mother Rabbit giving Peter camomille tea]
• Don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden
• Then old Mrs. Rabbit took a basket and her umbrella
• Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail, who were good little bunnies
• First he ate some lettuces
• Mr. McGregor jumped up and ran after Peter calling out “Stop thief!”
• It would have been a beautiful thing to hide in, if it had not so much water in it
• Mr. McGregor was quite sure that Peter was somewhere in the tool shed
• Peter asked her the way to the gate
• The first thing he saw was Mr. McGregor hoeing onions
• His mother was busy cooking
• His mother put him to bed, and made some camomile tea
• Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail had bread and milk and blackberries for supper

Bibliography

Potter, Beatrix. Peter Rabbit. London: Frederick Warne & Co., 19092. Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg version. Web. 20 July 2014.

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Last modified 20 March 2017