The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies
Beatrix Potter
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(Editorial Axioma, Nov. 5, 2016)
The Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, and published in July 1909. After two full-length tales about rabbits, Potter realized that children enjoyed her rabbit stories and pictures, and so reached back to characters and plot elements from The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902) and The Tale of Benjamin Bunny (1904) to create The Flopsy Bunnies. A semi-formal garden of archways and flowerbeds in Wales at the home of her uncle and aunt became the background for the illustrations.In The Flopsy Bunnies, Benjamin Bunny and his cousin Flopsy are the parents of six young rabbits called simply The Flopsy Bunnies. The story concerns how the Flopsy Bunnies, while raiding a rubbish heap of rotting vegetables, fall asleep and are captured by Mr. McGregor who places them in a sack...