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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- 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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