The Tale of Peter Rabbit’ was Beatrix Potter’s first book, expanded from an illustrated letter she had sent to a young friend who was ill. One hundred years later the classic tale of naughty Peter Rabbit’s escape from Mr McGregor’s garden still brings to children all over the world the pleasure that it gave to its very first reader.

It has sold over 40 million copies worldwide in more than 35 languages and has never been out of print since it was first published in 1902!