![]() ![]() It wasn't until some years later that Miss Potter thought of publishing the story as a book as she had come to realize that stories she wrote to children of various friends and relatives were being very well received and eagerly anticipated. Noel was ill in bed and so Miss Potter wrote to him: "My dear Noel, I don't know what to write to you, so I shall tell you a story about four little rabbits." The letter was wonderfully illustrated with tiny and exquisite pictures. ![]() The above is the introduction to one of the best-loved children's stories of all time - The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter. On September 4th, 1893, Miss Potter sat down to write a letter to Noel Moore, the five-year-old son of her ex-governess, all about a naughty rabbit called Peter. "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." The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter ![]()
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