Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit

I love the Beatrix Potters Tales and Peter Rabbit was the first of them to be published. Her illustrations are beautiful yet inspirational and the story itself is really good and funny. Its a great 'Little Book' not just for children but adults too. A classic!

This book is great for young readers. It will develop their reading, writing and spelling skills, and so is very useful if you wish your child to have a wider range of reading skills. It will give your child a sense of right and wrong, and so could help your child to behave themselves and not be naughty.

The story is about a rabbit called Peter who strays from his brothers and sisters into mischief! He runs away in search of fun, but what he really runs into is Mr McGregor who catches him stealing from his garden. In a hurry to get away from Mr McGregor, he forgets where the gate is to get out, and so gets himself caught in a net. Mr McGregor sees him, but Peter manages to escape again. After a bit of a wild goose chase around the garden, Peter finally finds the gate and escapes. Peter falls ill that night and has to take horrible medicine at bedtime, while his brothers and sisters were eating the blackberries they had picked while Peter had ran away.

I think this book should give children the idea that it is wrong to run away because if you do you may be punished.