Publication history [ edit ] Cover of the first edition, privately published in 1901 with monochrome illustrations

Kroll, Justin (22 February 2019). "David Oyelowo Joins the Cast of Sony's 'Peter Rabbit' Sequel (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety . Retrieved 21 September 2020. Mr McGregor’s Garden– Climb, crawl and jump around Mr McGregor’s garden as you search for Peter and his friends who are all hiding! Mr. McGregor - Mr. McGregor owns a beautiful garden that is filled with delicious fruits and vegetables. Peter's father was put into a pie by Mrs. McGregor. Cotton-tail - Cotton-tail is a sweet rabbit and Peter's sibling. As her name says, she is soft as cotton. (She is the youngest of the four.) The book was soon on sale in shops in London, including Harrods department store, accompanied by the world's first licensed character, a soft toy of Peter Rabbit. [3] By December 1903 the book had sold 50,000 copies. [5] The book's success prompted Warne to obtain more stories from Potter, starting in 1903 with both The Tailor of Gloucester and The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin. [3]Jeremy Fisher’s Pond– Splash into Jeremy Fisher’s sensory pond and help Jeremy and his friends make pond music. Since its release, the book has generated considerable merchandise for both children and adults, including toys, dishes, foods, clothing, and videos. Potter was one of the first to be responsible for such merchandise when she patented a Peter Rabbit doll in 1903 and followed it almost immediately with a Peter Rabbit board game. Peter Rabbit has remained popular amongst children for more than a century and continues to be adapted into new book editions, television programmes, and films. Potter asserted her tales would one day be nursery classics, and part of the "longevity of her books comes from strategy", writes Potter biographer Ruth MacDonald. [15] She was the first to exploit the commercial possibilities of her characters and tales; between 1903 and 1905 these included a Peter Rabbit stuffed toy, an unpublished board game, and nursery wallpaper. [16] Book [ edit ] Hop into a rabbit-sized world of adventure this Halloween with Peter Rabbit! Enjoy spooktacular fun with your favourite characters from the hit Peter Rabbit™ CBeebies TV show. Follow the trail that will lead you to Peter’s pumpkin patch for a Halloween hare-raving disco. You’ll get to hop and dance to your favourite spooky tunes! It’s a 45-minute Halloween adventure, recommended for ages 1-5. Halloween adventures with Peter Rabbit. Photo: Anthony Devlin

Carpenter, Humphrey; Prichard, Mari (1985). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature. Oxford University Press. pp.423–424. Mopsy - Mopsy is a rabbit and Peter's sister who always obeys her mother. (She is the second oldest of the four.) Flopsy - Flopsy is Peter's sister who is a good rabbit. (She is the second youngest the four siblings.) School Library Journal included the book at #19 on their Top 100 Picture Books list in 2012. [14] Adaptations [ edit ] Merchandising [ edit ] Peter Rabbit feasts in the forbidden garden.Eliza Dresang suggests that the book is "radical" in multiple ways. The first of these is its child-centred size, easy to hold. It is radical, too, in its nonlinear quality, with the images not immediately beside the text they illustrate (and sometimes before that text), and with sentences that often start with the result, and end with the actor, as in "But round the end of a cucumber frame, whom should he meet but Mr. McGregor!" The meaning, too, has more than one layer, not least in the dressed animals, which are at once experienced by the reader as animals and as humans. And the book's start, with the death of Peter Rabbit's father, is a radical innovation for a book for small children. [5] a b c d e Eccleshare, Julia (22 April 2002). "Peter Rabbit Turns 100". Publishers Weekly . Retrieved 21 March 2023. Katie Mullins describes Peter's rebellious nature, which is seen in the book's first dialogue, when Mrs. Rabbit forbids Peter to go into Mr. McGregor's garden. Mullins comments that the garden is stated to be dangerous, as it is where Peter's father met his death. She cites Maria Nikolajeva and Carole Scott's description of Peter as a "naughty boy who values his independence and whose desire to transgress boundaries far outweighs his mother’s warnings or his personal safety". [11] [12]