The Tale of Benjamin Bunny by Beatrix Potter

They find the blue jacket and brown shoes on a scarecrow, but Peter is apprehensive about lingering in the garden because of his previous experience. McGregor’s garden to retrieve the clothes Peter lost there in The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Benjamin Bunny and his cousin Peter Rabbit venture into Mr. McGregor and his wife leave home in their gig, A gig is a light, sprung cart pulled by a single horse. Peter and Benjamin gathering onions for Mrs.

Benjamin Bunny was adapted in 1992 as an episode of the BBC animated television series The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends. Beatrix created a nursery wallpaper tapping Benjamin’s image, and he returned as an adult rabbit in the Flopsy Bunnies and Mr. The Times Literary Supplement thought Beatrix’s illustrations “pencil perfect”, but suggested that she engage a literary assistant for future productions. In Benjamin Bunny, Beatrix developed the rabbit universe she created in Peter Rabbit, and in doing so suggested that the rabbit world was parallel to the human world, but complete and sufficient unto itself.īenjamin Bunny was an instant commercial and popular success, and thousands of copies were in print by the end of 1904. McGregor’s garden with his cousin Benjamin to retrieve the clothes he lost there during his earlier adventure.

A sequel to The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902), it tells of Peter’s return to Mr. T he Tale of Benjamin Bunny is a children’s book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, first published by Frederick Warne & Co.

The Tale of Benjamin Bunny by Beatrix Potter