Customer Reviews

The Tale of Benjamin Bunny (The 23 Tales No.4)

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My 2 year old loves this story she calls it, the bunny's friend book. She enjoys this story more than Peter Rabbit. I think that the story is more eventful than Peter Rabit; and it is nice that the bunnies get to finish their adventure. I have read hundreds of stories to my daughter and we both find this one enjoyable my 5 month old also seems to enjoy it. She likes the colorful pictures. I guess you could say that everyone is happy when this story is chosen. If you like Peter Rabbit you'll like Benjamin Bunny.

Full of fun and adventure, and a great companion to have with the tale of peter rabbit. While the tale of peter rabbit is full of mischief and adventure, this tale is full of adventure and teamwork (an important quality to instill in children. The book introduces a few more colorful characters to the series, and also gives peter a better ending than the last one!

The illustrations are very captivating, and it's clear that much hard work went into them.

As a writer of children's tales about rabbits, the peter rabbit series is by far my favorite. This book makes an excellent addition. I hope you and your young ones will enjoy it.

Darien Summers, author of The Mischievous Hare, a children's book.The Mischievous Hare

My son thoroughly enjoys this series. "The Tale of Benjamin Bunny" is a particularly good story to read after the child becomes familiar with "The Tale of Peter Rabbit," which sets up this story of Benjamin Bunny and Peter Rabbit's visit to Mr. McGreggor's garden. The story itself is told in the same charming prose, using appropriate words that many of today's readers tend to avoid because they appear "too difficult." The series published by Frederick Warne, in particular, had the vision to size the book perfectly for small hands, allowing even the youngest "readers" to enjoy the story, whether it is read, or whether one studies the many delightful, detailed images that fit the text so well. I highly recommend this book, as well as the rest of the Beatrix Potter series published by Frederick Warne.

Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit became a classic on the strength of its illustrations, and on that most important point, this Dalmation Press edition fails.

As with my review of Dalmation's release of the original story (The Tale of Peter Rabbit), I must point out that the color on the illustrations here is not optimal, either. Perhaps not quite as over-saturated and "wet" as in that other review, but still blurry. Perhaps the result of too much enlargement?

This cheap paperback comes with cheap thin covers and cheap stapled binding. Still, it cost a buck. (We may have bought it from Target's Dollar Spot.) And it provides a fuller telling of the story than some truncated editions. That means your child will enjoy such gems as:

"Then he came back to the basket and took out his son Benjamin by the ears, and whipped him with the little switch." (!!)

I was very disappointed with this edition and did not give it to the Benjamin for whom it was intended. I probably did not read the description carefully enough, but I was expecting the small, hardcover copy with colored illustrations that I used to buy for my son. This copy is very dull, the illustrations are in black and white and the cover is paperback. I will have to look elsewhere for a more interesting copy.

This is probably the second best-known of Beatrix Potter's wonderful rabbit stories. In this one, naughty Peter Rabbit and his cousin Benjamin again sneak into Mr. MacGregor's garden and get themselves into dangerous trouble with the cat. They are rescued by Benjamin's father. Beautifully illustrated, this classic story has been loved for good reason. The cat is dangerous, the bunnies foolish and lovable, the father heroic and brave, and the warm home scene allows the reader a sigh of relief at the end.

This book is very easy to like and it makes yo want to read more. It talks about how he lost his clothes and much more if you wat to find out then you better read it.

This board book has been abridged, I'm assuming, in order to cater to younger children. However, it has been abridged so poorly that the story has become incomprehensible even to an adult. I purchased this book as a present but ended up putting it right into the recycling bin. I didn't even want to give it away. No Beatrix Potter appreciator should be exposed to this; the unabridged version would make more sense to any child.