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The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit (Potter 23 Tales)

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I loved reading "The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit" to my children 30 years ago and now often use it as a baby or early birthday gift. It is the Beatix Potter book with the very fewest words per page. Children are introduced to Ms. Potter's wonderful use of the English language at an age in which their attention span is SHORT! The pages turn quickly for earliest listening experiences for toddlers. Some may object to the hunter and gun references in the story, but all is well in the end, and the little ones in my experience have loved this beautiful book.

We've been reading Beatrix Potter to our infant at bedtime - I'm not sure that she appreciates the books as much as her father and I do (illustrations are small and subdued). The story is seriously funny - almost deadpan at some points - and I love the illustrations of the fierce bad rabbit. I also read this to a 6 year old visitor to our place and she didn't seem overly impressed. In sum, only time will tell whether our daughter will grow to love Potter but we certainly are enjoying ourselves.

This is a fully illustrated short story book about a couple of a rabbits, one good and one a nasty one who bullies the good rabbit. The bad rabbit attacks the Good rabbit and steals his carrot. In turn, the fierce rabbit ended up with losing tails and whiskers when a hunter approached him.

Though short, it's a good book for young kids, equip with moral nurturing story and a fully illustrated pages to company the story. Most kids would love this book, but personally when I was one, I love a bit more longer of a story than this one.

My sons love this book, and they think it is quite funny -- precisely because the Fierce Bad Rabbit gets his comeuppance from a hunter. It's an old-fashioned approach, in that, the rabbit pays the consequences for his bad behavior: he loses his tail, his whiskers, and the carrot he swiped. The illustrations are great. A note on content, since another reviewer mentioned the Roly-Poly Pudding Tale of Samuel Whiskers. My 5-year-old found Samuel Whiskers MUCH more disturbing than this straightforward story. Beatrix Potter's world, from another era, is interesting and entertaining.

This is a very cute story about how being good and being bad has different outcomes. This would teach a very important lesson for young children to learn. The illustrations are also very cute, showing exactly what you'd picture the story being. The good, innocent rabbit is just sitting there with his little carrot, happy to have it to eat. A bad, fierce rabbit is hiding in the bushes, just waiting to pounce on the sweet, little rabbit. All of a sudden, he pounced! That poor sweet one had to go running and hide in a cave. Seeing what happens to the fierce, bad rabbit is very Beatrix Potter like. It is so sweet how it ends, how being good always works out and being bad isn't always going to go your way, no matter what you think.
~Camille

i am a big fan of the fierce bad rabbit, as well as all of beatrix potters works. However, the main characters are better, ( i'm very fond of bunnies) and the outcome and plot are less distrubing than the whole rolly-polly pudding thing, and the patty-pan. Still, one must wonder what social allagorie does "the man with the gun afford". Buy this book, get the whole series, they really are very nice to read, and if you think it would be detrimental to your maturity, buy it for a younger sibling, nephew, niece, cousin, etc. and see if you can bring yourself to give it away. I bet you won't be able to, and if you can, than there is something big wrong with your head...

"The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit" is one of Beatrix Potter's weirder children's books. The plot is set in motion when the nasty title character attacks another rabbit and steals his carrot.

This book is a violent and surreal morality tale. It's not one of my favorite Potter books. A warning to parents: gun violence is depicted in this tale.