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The Tale of Peter Rabbit at Wikisource. The Tale of Peter Rabbit is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter that follows mischievous and disobedient young Peter Rabbit as he gets into, and is chased around, the garden of Mr. McGregor. He escapes and returns home to his mother, who puts him to bed after offering him chamomile ...
Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater: USA: c. 1825 Peter Piper: England: 1813 Polly Put the Kettle On: England: 1803 Polly Wolly Doodle: USA Poor Mary 'Poor Jenny' or 'Poor Sally' England: 1880s Pop Goes the Weasel: England: 1850s Pretty Little Dutch Girl: USA: 1940s The Queen of Hearts: Britain: 1782 Pussy Cat Pussy Cat: Britain: 1805 Rain Rain Go Away
Origins. Both rhymes were first printed separately in a Tom the Piper's Son, a chapbook produced around 1795 in London, England. [1] The origins of the shorter and better known rhyme are unknown. The second, longer rhyme was an adaptation of an existing verse which was current in England around the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the ...
Appley Dapply's. Nursery Rhymes at Wikisource. Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes is the first of two collections of nursery rhymes written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter. It was first published in 1917. The title character is a brown mouse who takes food out of a cupboard in someone else's house.
Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, and published by Frederick Warne & Co. in December 1922. The book is a compilation of traditional English nursery rhymes such as "Goosey Goosey Gander", "This Little Piggy" and "Three Blind Mice". The title character is a rabbit who brews ale for ...
She was the first to exploit the commercial possibilities of her characters and tales with a Peter Rabbit doll, an unpublished Peter Rabbit board game, and a Peter Rabbit nursery wallpaper between 1903 and 1905. Similar "side-shows" (as she termed the spinoffs) were produced over the following two decades.
The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter and first published by Frederick Warne & Co. in October 1908 as The Roly-Poly Pudding. In 1926, it was re-published as The Tale of Samuel Whiskers. The book is dedicated to the author's fancy rat "Sammy" and tells of Tom Kitten's ...
The Tale of Benjamin Bunny is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, and first published by Frederick Warne & Co. in September 1904.The book is a sequel to The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902), and tells of Peter's return to Mr. McGregor's garden with his cousin Benjamin to retrieve the clothes he lost there during his previous adventure.