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A picture book combines visual and verbal narratives in a book format, most often aimed at young children. With the narrative told primarily through text, they are distinct from comics, which do so pr
Peter Rabbit with his family, from The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter, 1902
A board book
A reprint of the 1658 illustrated Orbis Pictus
Cover of Babes in the Wood (1879), illustrated by Randolph Caldecott
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
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The Tale of Peter Rabbit is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter that follows mischievous and disobedient young Peter Rabbit as he gets into, and is chased around, the garden of
Picture book
…in the format of modern picture books are Heinrich Hoffmann's Struwwelpeter from 1845, Benjamin Rabier's Tintin-Lutin from 1898 and Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit from 1902. Some of the best-known picture books are Robert McCloskey's Make Way for Ducklings, Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat, and Maurice Sendak's…
First edition, October 1902
Peter Rabbit, having disobediently entered the garden, meets Mr McGregor
Mrs. Rabbit puts Peter to bed, and gives him chamomile tea to treat his stomachache
Cover of the first edition, privately published in 1901 with monochrome illustrations