Author / Illustrator: Beatrix Potter
Genre: Fantasy
Major Awards: N/A
Age Group: PreKindergarten - 1st
Summary: A family of four rabbits live underneath a big fir-tree. One morning, mother rabbit warned the baby rabbits to not go to Mr.McGregor's garden otherwise they'll be put in a pie by Mrs.McGregor just like their father. The other three bunnies were good and listened to mother rabbit. Peter rabbit was naughty and ran the other way. He squeezed through the gate and ate the vegetables in the garden. Eventually he gets noticed by Mr. McGregor! He gets chased, trapped, and ripped his jacket into pieces. After Peter got home, he was not feeling well and his mother put him to bed, feeding him food to nurse him back to health.
Evaluation & Comments: I would love to use this book for younger grade levels. Although the size of the book is not the most ideal, I will try to find another version of the book so that I can actually let the children handle, turn, and flip the pages without much damage. One activity that I could think of for younger students is to print out an outline of a bunny and let them dress up / color how they want their bunny to look like. I didn't want to do any "academic" activity for this because I thought it would be fun to do arts and craft for this kind of book. If I had to think of other activities for students to do I would actually do class discussions of cause and effect. I would try to teach the students along the lines of what happened when Peter rabbit did this? The message that the story wants you to learn is that you should listen to your mother's warnings, do not go into other people's property without permission.
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