The Christmas Tale of Peter Rabbit
A festive winter mission. Peter Rabbit and his cousin Benjamin discover a friend in danger of becoming Mr. and Mrs. McGregor's Christmas dinner. They must mount a rescue — quietly, in the snow, avoiding the cat and the cook and the giant Christmas pudding. The book closes around a fireside, with everyone safe, and snow falling.
Emma Thompson's second continuation, written one year after The Further Tale of Peter Rabbit, with the same gentleness and the same close attention to Beatrix's voice. The setting is Sawrey in the depth of winter — chimneys steaming, hedges thick with snow, gardens dormant under frost.
The book has the warmth of a Christmas card and the bravery of a small rabbit who knows what is at stake.
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Particulars
- First edition
- 2013, Frederick Warne & Co.
- Author
- Emma Thompson
- Illustrator
- Eleanor Taylor
- Setting
- Sawrey at Christmas — gardens, kitchens, chimneys, snow
- Position
- Second of the Emma Thompson continuations
Curiosities
- ❦A winter sequel to The Further Tale of Peter Rabbit. Written and published one year apart, like the originals.
- ❦The plot quietly echoes Beatrix's own Pigling Bland — small heroes mounting a rescue against larger forces — but in winter, and at Christmas.
- ❦The snow scenes were drawn from Beatrix's own watercolour studies of Sawrey in winter — kept in the Frederick Warne archive.
- ❦Eleanor Taylor's illustrations carry forward Beatrix's habit of putting real Sawrey buildings behind the characters — chimneys, gates, slate roofs.
- ❦A Christmas pudding plays an important role. So does a kitchen window left ajar.
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