The Tale of Mr. Tod

by Beatrix Potter

Hardcover, 1987

Status

Available

Call number

823.912

Publication

Frederick Warne Publishers Ltd (1987), Edition: New edition, Hardcover, 88 pages

Description

The whole family is on full alert when Benjamin and Flopsy Bunny's seven little bunnies are kidnapped by the wily badger, Tommy Brock. Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny track Tommy all the way to the dreadful, mysterious hide-out of the foxy-whiskered and thoroughly disagreeable Mr. Tod.

User reviews

LibraryThing member questbird
Children's fiction. Just for fun, and because I said I'd list all the books I read. This book had been read to me (probably many times) before this year (2001).
LibraryThing member MrsLee
Tommy Brock (a badger) has stolen Benjamin Bunny's babies and intends to eat them! Shocking premise for a children's tale, not to mention elder abuse. Nature is not always pretty, and Ms. Potter was tired of writing only the pretty stuff. As always, her mingling of human traits and animal
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characteristics is masterfully done so that you learn much of animal behaviour without feeling that you are being taught.
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LibraryThing member 2pigs
small and amazing
LibraryThing member ThomasPluck
this one reads like a cannibal killer horror tale!

Language

Original publication date

1912

Physical description

88 p.

ISBN

0723234736 / 9780723234739

Local notes

A badger called Tommy Brock kidnaps the children of Benjamin Bunny and his wife Flopsy, intending to eat them, and hides them in an oven in the home of his arch enemy Mr. Tod, a fox. Benjamin and his friend Peter Rabbit follow Brock in an attempt to rescue the babies.
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