A gentle retelling for listeners ages 3–5 of Beatrix Potter's The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit (1906): a fierce bad Rabbit takes a gentle Rabbit's carrot without saying “Please,” a man with a gun takes him for a very funny bird, and after the bang the bad Rabbit runs past without any tail or whiskers.
Read first 3 pagesThe opening of The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit: A Gentle Retelling, free to read.
Thump, thump! Up sticks a tail. Out stick long whiskers. Here comes a fierce bad Rabbit!
Sniff, sniff! What a fine carrot! Mother gave it to her good, gentle Rabbit.
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