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  • SpokenIn examining a book such as Peter Rabbit, it is important that the superficial characteristics of its deceptively simple plot should not be allowed to blind the reader to the more substantial fabric of its deeper motivations.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Matthew Buckley 2007

  • SpokenIn examining a book such as Peter Rabbit, it is important that the superficial characteristics of its deceptively simple plot should not be allowed to blind the reader to the more substantial fabric of its deeper motivations.

    Linus Matthew Buckley 2007

  • "Peter Rabbit," I said, picking up Cory's favorite storybook with colorful illustrations on every page, and this alone made Peter Rabbit a very good book.

    Flowers In The Attic Andrews, V. C. 1979

  • I could see she wasn't yearning for my company, but I wanted to tell her that I knew she was 'Peter Rabbit' at the dance.

    Grace Harlowe's Fourth Year at Overton College Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower

  • "Who is 'Peter Rabbit'; or, the Mystery of the 'Blue Jacket'?" declaimed

    Grace Harlowe's Fourth Year at Overton College Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower

  • "The Three Musketeers" were gorgeous to behold in their square-cut costumes, high boots and wide feathered hats, but the sensation of the evening was "Peter Rabbit," who came to the dance attired in his little blue, brass-buttoned jacket, brown khaki pantaloons and what seemed to be the identical shoes he lost in Mr. McGregor's garden.

    Grace Harlowe's Fourth Year at Overton College Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower

  • "Do you really want to know who 'Peter Rabbit' was?" whispered Elfreda.

    Grace Harlowe's Fourth Year at Overton College Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower

  • Jimmy Skunk had been sent to call on Prickly Porky and ask him if he had seen any strange creature such as Peter Rabbit had told about.

    The Adventures of Prickly Porky 1919

  • For the first or second grade, choose a few simple fables, a few short, simple fairy tales, and a few short, simple nature stories, such as "Peter Rabbit,"

    Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906

  • "Peter Rabbit," and some of them newer, like "The Greedy Brownie" and

    Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 Various 1865

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