I was 6 and my sister was almost 5 when I persuaded her to step on the end of a rake. My surprise when the handle hit her in the face (just like in the cartoons) was nothing compared to hers. The ...

A lecturer at a college university in England accused a beloved children’s book author of stealing stories from African slaves. On May 19, Dr. Emily Zobel Marshall from Leeds Beckett University ...

We’re all familiar with “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” by Beatrix Potter. Peter Rabbit ventures into Mr. McGregor’s garden despite explicitly being told not to by his mother. His sisters, Mopsy, Flopsy ...

British author Beatrix Potter could have had no idea back in 1902, when she published The Tale of Peter the Rabbit, that it would one day become a major motion picture with computer-generated graphics ...

Peter Rabbit, the naughty bunny who creates havoc when he steals into Mr. McGregor's vegetable garden, remains a charming mischief-maker after 100 years. Written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, ...

As part of its popular family-friendly Summertime Saturday Puppet Show Series hosting acclaimed puppeteers from around New England and beyond, the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the ...

The story focuses on a family of anthropomorphic rabbits, the widowed mother rabbit cautioning her young against entering a vegetable garden grown by a man named Mr. McGregor, telling them: "your ...

In this story drawn from Potter’s The Tale of Mr. Tod, Peter Rabbit and his cousin Benjamin ignore their parents’ advice to stay close to home because of the lurking fox, Mr. Tod. On each page, tiny ...

Enchantment Theatre Company has postponed its March 29 performance of “Peter Rabbit Tales.” The show, based on “The Original Peter Rabbit Books,” was to be presented at The Klein Memorial Auditorium ...

There’s clever and then there’s annoying, and it’s important to know the difference. “Peter Rabbit” is more clever than it has any right to be, but too often veers into the realm of the annoying, like ...