Everybunny Needs A Name! Big Brother Peter (A Peter Rabbit Tale)

In a warm fuzzy burrow under a big fir tree, a little rabbit held his mommy's hand.

"Come and say hello to your new baby sisters, Peter," said Mrs. Rabbit.

Big brother Peter can count. He counts 1, 2, 3 babies sleeping in three cradles. He asks what they are called.

"This is Flopsy and this is Mopsy, and we need to think of a name for this one!" said Mrs. Rabbit, pointing to the last bunny.

Peter can't wait to play with his new sisters. He beats his big, loud drum right beside Flopsy's cradle. But Flopsy wakes up, and she definitely does NOT like the drum. Peter rocks her back to sleep.

Thinking he needs to try a quieter toy, Peter tries to get Mopsy to look at his boat. But Mopsy isn't interested and falls back to sleep. Mopsy and Flopsy are not being as much fun as he'd hoped. Mommy tells Peter that baby rabbits do sleep a lot and that he'll have to give his little siblings some time. So he waits. And waits some more. Finally the third bunny's eyes open and she looks like she is ready to play at last.

She giggled and she jiggled, and her big fluffy tail wiggled.

And suddenly Peter knows the perfect name for his third baby sister--Cottontail.

Wise Mrs. Rabbit knows just the perfect way to get big brother Peter interested in his new little sister by joining in the name game, in this fetching little board book based on Beatrix Potter's tales of Peter Rabbit and his sisters, in Big Brother Peter: A Peter Rabbit Tale (Frederick Warne, 2017). With charming pictures in the familiar style of Potter's beloved illustrations, with this new series the original publisher sets out to familiarize the very young with new tales of that mischievous bunny who, unlike his more proper siblings, is wont to wander far and wide to find many adventures.