5/9/2023 0 Comments The tale of peter rabbit book![]() ![]() ![]() This week I unexpectedly received independent confirmation that I was not alone in the deep discomfort I experienced as a child with this book. Wrapping him in it was cause for inner debate: illustrations to the inside where I couldn’t see them, or on the outside so they wouldn’t touch and frighten him by osmosis. One received a baby quilt with illustrations from Beatrix Potter’s books, when he was born. It is possible my children-one now an adult and one dangerously close-have never heard the story. Some children’s books I still find disturbing as an adult.īeatrix Potter’s Tale of Peter Rabbit is one such book. ![]() Let’s just get this out here right now: I found certain children’s books disturbing as a child. No need to let us know it’s “wrong,” since we’re only joking. It’s an exaggeration, for the sake of smiles. Some of our commenters mistake this for our actual opinion (as if we would ever actually care to ban a book!). ![]()
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