The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail and Peter.
They lived with their Mother in a sand-bank, underneath the root of a very big fir-tree.

This story is one of the famous Peter Rabbit Books written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, which have been enchanting children throughout the world for four generations. Beatrix Potter was born in London in 1866 and during her rather lonely childhood she studied art and natural history. The first Peter Rabbit was a schoolroom pet and she learned to love the countryside and its animal inhabitants during childhood holidays in Scotland, and later in the English Lake District, where she made her home for the last thirty years of her life.
The Peter Rabbit Books have been translated into many foreign languages and no other animal stories have so captivated the imagination of children and adults alike. These little books should be among the first owned by any child and their appeal is as fresh as when the first story was published more than eighty years ago.