Peter Rabbit: The Great Butterfly Hunt

A marvellous new adventure in this bestselling series

Join Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny as they hunt for magnificent minibeasts in this new lift-the-flap adventure.

It's a beautiful sunny day and Mrs. Rabbit gives Peter and Benjamin her bug-spotting guide so they can go on their very own nature trail. Out of all the creatures in the book, Peter and Benjamin want to find the beautiful orange butterfly most of all but, try as they might, they can't find one anywhere. Until they spot something emerging from a chrysalis . . .

This brand new story has lots of paper flaps for little hands to explore as they help Peter and Benjamin discover wiggly worms, scuttling beetles and so much more.

Text by Jane Riordan. Illustrations by Eleanor Taylor.

About the Author

Beatrix Potter was born on July 28, 1866, at No. 2, Bolton Gardens, Kensington, London. Beatrix Potter discovered her love of nature on annual summer holidays in Scotland and the Lake District. On September 4, 1893, Beatrix sat down to write a picture letter to Noel Moore, the five-year-old son of her ex-governess, all about a naughty rabbit called Peter. Noel was ill in bed and so Beatrix wrote to him:

"My dear Noel, I don't know what to write to you, so I shall tell you a story about four little rabbits. . . . " Some years later, Beatrix thought of publishing the story as a book. She rewrote it into an exercise book and sent it to six publishers. It was rejected by every one of them. It was not until Beatrix had printed the book herself that Frederick Warne agreed to publish it. The Tale of Peter Rabbit was published in 1902, costing one shilling (the equivalent of just 5 pence today), and became one of the most famous stories ever written. Many of Beatrix's later books were set at Hill Top—the rats that infested the farm inspired The Tale of Samuel Whiskers, Tom Kitten and his sisters climb up the rockery wall at the bottom of Hill Top garden, and Ginger and Pickles.