Peter Rabbit

Peter Rabbit is a fictional anthropomorphic character in various children's stories by Beatrix Potter. He first appeared in The Tale of Peter Rabbit in 1902 and subsequently in five more books between 1904 and 1912. Spinoff merchandise includes dishes, wallpaper, and dolls. He appears as a character in a number of adaptations.

picture book
animal fantasy
anthropornorphic擬人化 (擬聲字 hoe)

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

The Tale of Peter Rabbit is a British children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter that follows mischievous and disobedient young Peter Rabbit as he is chased about the garden of Mr. McGregor. He escapes and returns home to his mother who puts him to bed after dosing him with camomile tea. The tale was written for five-year-old Noel Moore, son of Potter's former governess Annie Carter Moore, in 1893. It was revised and privately printed by Potter in 1901 after several publishers' rejections but was printed in a trade edition by Frederick Warne & Co. in 1902. The book was a success, and multiple reprints were issued in the years immediately following its debut. It has been translated into 36 languages and with 45 million copies sold it is one of the best-selling books of all time.

The book has generated considerable merchandise over the decades since its release for both children and adults with toys, dishes, foods, clothing, videos and other products made available. Potter was one of the first to be responsible for such merchandise when she patented a Peter Rabbit doll in 1903 and followed it almost immediately with a Peter Rabbit board game.

plot 電子連結

The story focuses on a family of anthropomorphic rabbits, the widowed mother rabbit cautioning her young against entering a vegetable garden grown by a man named Mr. McGregor, telling them: "your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor". Whereas her three daughters obediently refrain from entering the garden, going down the lane to pick blackberries, her rebellious son Peter enters the garden to snack on some vegetables. Peter ends up eating more than is good for him and goes looking for parsley to cure his stomach ache. However, Peter is spotted by Mr. McGregor and loses his jacket and shoes while trying to escape. He hides in a watering can in a shed, but then has to run away again when Mr. McGregor finds him, and ends up completely lost. After sneaking past a cat, Peter sees the gate where he entered the garden from a distance and heads for it, despite being spotted and chased by Mr. McGregor again. He finds difficulties in wriggling beneath the gate, but manages to escape the garden, only to spot his abandoned clothing articles being used to dress Mr. McGregor's scarecrow. After returning home, a sickened Peter is bedridden by his mother whereas his well-behaved sisters receive a sumptuous dinner of milk and berries as opposed to Peter's supper of chamomile tea.

Beatrix Potter

Helen Beatrix Potter (28 July 1866 – 22 December 1943) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children's books, featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit, which celebrated the British landscape and country life.

→book規格: 不重 不大 (for children)

→Gutenberg 

→女性受壓力的時代

→orlando美麗佳人

 fairy tale

A fairy tale (pronounced /ˈfeəriˌteɪl/) is a type of short story that typically features European folkloric fantasy characters, such asdwarves, elves, fairies, giants, gnomes, goblins, mermaids, trolls, or witches, and usually magic or enchantments. Fairy tales may be distinguished from other folk narratives such as legends (which generally involve belief in the veracity of the events described) and explicitly moral tales, including beast fables.

time: once upon a time 

 單親、孤獨心 unfair and ignore <小孩最氣>

notes on the quiz

2. litter 倒、丟下來(丟垃圾); 多胞胎
3. She was up early. 早起 → (v.)was
4. baby carriage 嬰兒車
6. I can eat a horse. 可以吃很多(很餓)
7. sn字首有負面意思 ex. sniffle, sneeze
8. 擬聲字 (goose)→What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
9. gnaw (兩個子音在一起時,前面不發音)
10. slop (豬吃聲)
12. say grace 基督徒飯前謝飯禱告的動作
13. pass up = faint 昏倒
14. shelter (n.)庇護所; (v.)保護+人from__ 
16. pig supreme 優良豬(肉)
18. childhood phase階段 X童年幻想
19. dump 垃圾場
21. enormous 大 
23. Ferris wheel   (發明者)
      flirt (罵人的 小蕩婦) (v.) 
25. vocalist 配音員
      ee尾→人 ex. nominee , employee/employer 

WORD

en尾→強而有力的動詞
ex. enchanting (chant魔咒; ing迷人)
→I have never seen an ehchanted castle before.
→gregorian chant 四線譜, 葛利果聖歌 Acapalla

ly尾→(adj.)
ex. friendly, lovely, eldrely, deadly, cowardly
*ly is a suffix standing the adv. part ohh speech

Ved<人> / Ving<事物>

單字片語
don't get into nischief 別誤入歧途/別搗蛋
bun 小餐包/麵包(台語唸法:胖) 
radish 蕪菁(白蘿蔔) ; carrot 紅蘿蔔
parsley <解胃脹>
on 人's hand/knees(跪著)/stomach(趴著) 
scare-crow 稻草人
ex. I'm excited / interested for something exciting. 
shed big tears 流淚
came up with a sieve 拿出一個篩
tool shed 工具間
watering pot = flowering pot
Kertyschoo哈啾(擬聲字)  *英文沒這個字
You puzzled me. I feel puzzled for something puzzling.
godiva.  peeping tom