The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies by Beatrix Potter
The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies is a classic children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter. It tells the story of six mischievous bunnies, Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and their cousins, who live in a sandbank near a
The Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, and first published by Frederick Warne & Co. in July 1909. After two full-length tales about rabbits, Potter had grown weary of the subject and was reluctant to write another. She realized however that children most enjoyed her rabbit stories and pictures, and so reached back to characters and plot elements from The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902) and The Tale of Benjamin Bunny (1904) to create The Flopsy Bunnies. A semi-formal garden of archways and flowerbeds in Wales at the home of her uncle and aunt became the background for the illustrations.