The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter, 1902. The Tale of Peter Rabbit is a British childrens book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter that follows mischievous and disobedient young Peter Rabbit as he is chased about the garden of Mr. McGregor. He escapes and returns home to his mother who puts him to bed after dosing him with camomile tea. The tale was written for five-year-old Noel Moore, son of Potters former governess Annie Carter Moore, in 1893. Beatrix Potter (18661943) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative childrens books, featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit, which celebrated the British landscape and country life.The book was a success, and multiple reprints were issued in the years immediately following its debut. It has been translated into 36 languages and with 45 million copies sold it is one of the best-selling books of all time. The book has generated considerable merchandise over the decades since its release for both children and adults with toys, dishes, foods, clothing, videos and other products made available.
Timmy Tiptoes and his wife Goody, are two squirrels gathering nuts for the winter and storing them in hollow trees. Wrongly suspected of stealing other squirrels nuts, Timmy is beaten up and trapped in a woodpeckers hole. Here he meets Chippy Hackee, a small striped chipmunk that tends him with kindness and with whom he eats nuts, growing too fat to squeeze through the hole, until one night a big wind blows off the top of the tree, freeing Timmy. Book illustrated with beautiful Potters watercolors.
Timmy Willie is a country mouse who falls asleep in a hamper of vegetables and wakes up in the city. It will be made welcome by Johnny Town-Mouse, but soon regrets the peace and simplicity of the life in the countryside. Book illustrated with beautiful Potters watercolors.
Ginger and Pickles are two shopkeepers who extend unlimited credit to their customers and, as a result, are forced to go out of business. Tabitha Twitchit, the proprietor of the now only village shop, exploits the situation and raises the prices of everything in her shop and refuses to give credit. Although she has trouble counting the change, Sally Henny-Penny decides to reopen the store of Ginger and Pickles. The many bargains will delight everybody. Book illustrated with beautiful Potters watercolors.
A bad rabbit, attacks a good rabbit to steal a carrot and starts to munch it on a bench. After a while, a hunter mistake the bad rabbit for a bird and shoots. The bad rabbit will run away without whi
Out to go to market, Little Pig Robinson will live a series of amazing adventures that will lead him to settle on a pleasant little island in the South Seas. Book illustrated with beautiful Potters w
The Flopsy Bunnies are six young rabbits, sons of Benjamin and Flopsy Bunny. One day, while they are eating some rotten vegetables in the garden of Mr. McGregor, the six rabbits fall asleep and are captured and imprisoned in a sack. Their parents, with the help of Thomasina Tittlemouse, will free them. Book illustrated with beautiful Potters watercolors.
While Mr. and Mrs. McGregor are absent, Peter Rabbit and his cousin Benjamin Bunny venture in search of clothes Peter lost before. Busy gathering onions for Peters mother, they dont notice a cat who to traps them under a basket. The intervention of Benjamins father will release the two kids. Book illustrated with beautiful Potters watercolors.
La Storia di Peter Coniglio e delle sue disavventure ha fatto sorridere e sognare milioni di lettori piccoli e grandi. Il classico di Beatrix Potter con tutte le illustrazioni originali di Virginia Albert rivive in italiano moderno grazie alla traduzione inedita dello scrittore Jason R. Forbus in questa raffinata edizione digitale.
