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What Time is it, Peter Rabbit?
What time does Peter Rabbit have his morning snack? What time does Tom Kitten have his tail and whiskers combed? Using the moveable clock hands to follow the diagram on each page, young children will learn to tell the time while they have fun with Peter Rabbit and his friends.
18 pages, Hardcover
First published June 30, 2004
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About the author
Beatrix Potter
3,320 books2,135 followersHelen Beatrix Potter was an English author, illustrator, mycologist, and conservationist who is best known for her children's books, which featured animal characters such as Peter Rabbit.
Born into a wealthy household, Potter was educated by governesses and grew up isolated from other children. She had numerous pets, and through holidays in Scotland and the Lake District, developed a love of landscape, flora, and fauna, all of which she closely observed and painted. Because she was a woman, her parents discouraged intellectual development, but her study and paintings of fungi led her to be widely respected in the field of mycology.
In her thirties, Potter published the highly successful children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit and became secretly engaged to her publisher, Norman Warne, causing a breach with her parents, who disapproved of his social status. Warne died before the wedding.
Potter eventually published 24 children's books, the most recent being The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots (2016), and having become financially independent of her parents, was able to buy a farm in the Lake District, which she extended with other purchases over time.
In her forties, she married a local solicitor, William Heelis. She became a sheep breeder and farmer while continuing to write and illustrate children's books. Potter died in 1943 and left almost all of her property to The National Trust in order to preserve the beauty of the Lake District as she had known it, protecting it from developers.
Potter's books continue to sell well throughout the world, in multiple languages. Her stories have been retold in various formats, including a ballet, films, and in animation.
Born into a wealthy household, Potter was educated by governesses and grew up isolated from other children. She had numerous pets, and through holidays in Scotland and the Lake District, developed a love of landscape, flora, and fauna, all of which she closely observed and painted. Because she was a woman, her parents discouraged intellectual development, but her study and paintings of fungi led her to be widely respected in the field of mycology.
In her thirties, Potter published the highly successful children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit and became secretly engaged to her publisher, Norman Warne, causing a breach with her parents, who disapproved of his social status. Warne died before the wedding.
Potter eventually published 24 children's books, the most recent being The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots (2016), and having become financially independent of her parents, was able to buy a farm in the Lake District, which she extended with other purchases over time.
In her forties, she married a local solicitor, William Heelis. She became a sheep breeder and farmer while continuing to write and illustrate children's books. Potter died in 1943 and left almost all of her property to The National Trust in order to preserve the beauty of the Lake District as she had known it, protecting it from developers.
Potter's books continue to sell well throughout the world, in multiple languages. Her stories have been retold in various formats, including a ballet, films, and in animation.
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January 23, 2023
If you only want to learn the hours and not the quarter, halves or three-quarters....
EDIT: I had to reread this book, and came back just to make sure I had given it the LOWEST POSSIBLE RATING (I had). It's AWFUL. Here's how it goes:
SPOILER: YOU NEVER HAVE TO MOVE THE BIG HAND. EVER. On the last page, there are three examples without guidance on where the hands move (all on the hour), and a further three examples of times shown (again, all on the hour).
Contrasting this to Tell the Time with Thomas Clock Book, which at least has more text and content, this one is an insult to the book-buying public. I could write a better one, myself, in under 20 minutes, and I'm not an author.
No but seriously, to add, "Peter Rabbit goes on his way again at half past 10" or "At quarter after 10, he sets out to meet Benjamin Bunny - move the big hand to to the quarter hour, and the little hand stays on the 10" would take no time at all, and would at least help the kid to visualise the clock's movement... kind of a KEY FACTOR in ANALOGUE TIME, no?!
Frederick Warne has been pushing it for a long time, in my opinion. Poor Beatrix Potter - I can't imagine she'd approve of the complete and utter lack of effort going into this.
I won't be buying another Beatrix Potter themed ANYTHING ever again. It's been stretched to death (another example: Peter Rabbit Board Book. At least SOME thought went into Peter Rabbit's ABC, but still...). Cash cow.
EDIT: I had to reread this book, and came back just to make sure I had given it the LOWEST POSSIBLE RATING (I had). It's AWFUL. Here's how it goes:
At 8 o'clock it's time to comb Tom Kitten's tail and whiskers. Move the little hand to the 8 and the big hand to the 12.That's the extent of it, and it continues with Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle putting out her washing at 4, and Hunca Munca putting her babies to bed at 7, etc.
At 10 o'clock Peter Rabbit has a morning snack. Move the little hand to the 10 and the big hand to the 12.
At 1 o'clock Mr. Jeremy Fisher eats a butterfly sandwish for this lunch. Move the little hand to the 1 and the big hand to the 12.
At 2 o'clock Jemima Puddle-duck takes her ducklings for a walk. Move the little hand to the 2 and the big hand to the 12....
SPOILER: YOU NEVER HAVE TO MOVE THE BIG HAND. EVER. On the last page, there are three examples without guidance on where the hands move (all on the hour), and a further three examples of times shown (again, all on the hour).
Contrasting this to Tell the Time with Thomas Clock Book, which at least has more text and content, this one is an insult to the book-buying public. I could write a better one, myself, in under 20 minutes, and I'm not an author.
No but seriously, to add, "Peter Rabbit goes on his way again at half past 10" or "At quarter after 10, he sets out to meet Benjamin Bunny - move the big hand to to the quarter hour, and the little hand stays on the 10" would take no time at all, and would at least help the kid to visualise the clock's movement... kind of a KEY FACTOR in ANALOGUE TIME, no?!
Frederick Warne has been pushing it for a long time, in my opinion. Poor Beatrix Potter - I can't imagine she'd approve of the complete and utter lack of effort going into this.
I won't be buying another Beatrix Potter themed ANYTHING ever again. It's been stretched to death (another example: Peter Rabbit Board Book. At least SOME thought went into Peter Rabbit's ABC, but still...). Cash cow.
February 27, 2009
learning to tell time with peter rabbit and friends, this book was enjoyable. each spread contains an illustration from a potter work with a quote.
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