The Chicken Wins by a Head
Friday, August 10, 2007 at 10:02AM
rebecca in children's literature, tidbits of no consequence

P9.gif…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.

Peter%20full%20smaller.jpgI 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:

Can you think of others?
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