The Chicken Wins by a Head

…with the rabbit on the tail end.

Most of the interesting search queries in this blog’s stats still have something to do with poor old headless Mike. Queries on the subject of potty training come in a close second.

Today, the stats recorded a few queries for “peter rabbit jams and jellies.” Searching back through the other results for that search, I didn’t find any Peter Rabbit jams and jellies, but I did find Peter Rabbit’s Carrot Marmalade.

I also found out, in a Trails.com blurb about Massachusettes’ Briar Patch Conservation Area, that Thornton Burgess created Peter Rabbit.

Bzzzzzzzt! Wrong answer!

Beatrix Potter created Peter Rabbit. Thorton Burgess, inspired by Beatrix Potter’s animal tales, created Peter Cottontail. (A more cynical person might call it shameless copying.)

Here are a few other rabbits in children’s literature:

• Rabbit, in A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh stories.
• In addition to Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter has Benjamin Bunny, and Peter’s siblings: Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail (with a hyphen).
  
• Brer Rabbit in the Uncle Remus stories.
• The Velveteen Rabbit.
• Update: Brian adds Barrington Bunny to the list.
  
• Candyinsierras reminds us of Margaret Wise Brown’s Runaway Bunny.
• Update 2: Rose contributes the Snuggle Bunny.
• Lisa J adds a few: Little Nutbrown Hare from Guess How Much I Love You
• and Hazel, Fiver, and BigWig from Watership Down.
• Update 3: We can’t forget The White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland, says Missmelliflous.
  

Can you think of others?

Comments

[Brian]

Not a children's book per se, but I've always been partial to Barrington Bunny.

[candyinsierras]

The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise who wrote my children's favorite bedtime book, Goodnight Moon.

[Rose]

The Snuggle Bunny

[Lisa J]

Little Nutbrown Hare (Guess How Much I Love You)
Hazel, Fiver, & BigWig from Watership Down (there are others but I don't remember them...)

[Juanita]

Rebecca,

the link for Peter Rabbit's Carrot Marmalade is to your Potty Training post. I appreciated the potty training post but I was hoping for a recipe for the marmalade. :-)

Juanita

[rebecca]

Oops. Well it isn't a recipe for marmalade anyway, just a place to buy it. :)

Fixed it for you anyway!

[nina]

Rebecca, thanks for the clarification about Peter Cottontail and the NEA book list. :)

[missmellifluous]

Don't forget The White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland!!!
:)

[rebecca]

Oh yes, we can't leave him out. And you helpfully left a link, too!