The Christmas Tale of Peter Rabbit by Emma Thompson, illustrated by Eleanor Taylor – inspired by the original tales of Beatrix Potter – Wow, such a beautifully illustrated story! I love everything about this book, the classic touch, thick paper, illustrations, special story about a turkey, soluti...
Very clever and sweet. I'm just very jealous that Emma Thompson got a LETTER from Peter Rabbit himself asking her to write the book. Benjamin Bunny makes a cameo and so do the McGregors and their garden. Thompson works in a clever vocabulary word on one page, much in the same manner that Potte...
In the spirit of the many prequel-sequel-requel publications comes this new story about Beatrix Potter's most famous character, Peter Rabbit. Emma Thompson was approached to imagine a new adventure to celebrate 110 years since the first publication. She manages to have fun with the character, sta...
The day before the arrival of the Gray children, everyone got a bit tense. The children had been too excited to sleep and had woken up grumpy as a consequence. Vincent was feeling resentful because Norman had made him promise to wash the bedclothes with Megsie instead of scratching the piglets. H...
The barley field! Thirty acres of it! We’re not allowed to walk on it. Once again, the call-sheet is covered with huge supplications like ‘PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DON’T WALK ON THE BARLEY!!’ and ‘IT TOOK US EIGHT MONTHS TO GROW THE BARLEY. IF YOU STEP ON IT WE CANNOT REPAIR THE DAMAGE!!’ and so fort...