Breathless, terrified, and damp, he is unsure which direction he must go to return home. Tired and unable to fit through the window, McGregor goes back to work. When McGregor tries to place his foot on Peter, Peter dashes through a window, knocking over three plants. Peter sneezes and McGregor begins chasing him again. Certain Peter is hiding in the shed, McGregor begins turning over flowerpots in search of the rabbit. Unfortunately, there is too much water in the can. He rushes into a toolshed and hides inside a water canister. Just as McGregor attempts to place a sieve over Peter’s head, Peter wriggles out of the net and escapes, leaving his jacket behind. Hearing Peter’s sobs, three friendly sparrows exert him to get free. However, Peter’s jacket button gets caught on a gooseberry net. He escapes McGregor, running faster with all four legs.

Peter loses one shoe in the cabbage patch, and the other in the potato field. Terrified, Peter races through the garden but has forgotten where the gate is. McGregor, who stops planting baby cabbages to chase after Peter with a rake.

As Peter rounds a cucumber frame, he meets Mr. Feeling ill from eating too much, Peter seeks parsley to calm his stomach. He squeezes under the gate and eats lettuces, French beans, and radishes. Peter, a naughty rabbit, disobeys his mother’s orders and runs straight for Mr. The obedient Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail obey orders and travel down the lane to pick blackberries. Misses Rabbit tells them not to get into mischief as she heads off to the bakery to buy a loaf of brown bread and five currant-buns. The rabbits’ father was caught in the garden and ended up in Mrs.

One day, Old Misses Rabbit tells her children they may run in the fields or play down the lane, but under no circumstances can they enter Mr. Four rabbits, Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter live with their mother on a sandbank below a tall fir tree. The story is narrated in the omniscient third-person perspective. The book has been adapted several times on screen, most recently the 2018 live-action film produced by Columbia Pictures, directed by Will Gluck, and starring James Corden as Peter Rabbit. Following the introduction of a Peter Rabbit doll by Potter in 1903, a line of merchandising based on the book has continued to keep it popular for more than a century. After a series of misadventures, Peter returns home where his mother gives him tea and puts him to bed. The story follows the young and unruly Peter Rabbit as he is hounded through the vegetable garden of Mr. The book would go on to become one of the all-time bestsellers, selling 45 million copies and translated into thirty-six languages. Written and illustrated by British author Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902) was written for five-year-old Noel Moore, the son of Potter’s ex-governess Annie Carter Moore, in 1893.

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