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The Peter Rabbit and Friends Cookbook
Peter Rabbit and his friends have some tasty ideas for kids in the kitchen. Using artwork from The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends animated TV series, this charming book contains plenty of fully-tested recipes for little folks. Bright, full-color illustrations used throughout make it lovely to look at as well as to use.
- GenresCookbooks
48 pages, Hardcover
First published April 30, 1986
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About the author
Beatrix Potter
3,354 books2,139 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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December 9, 2025
I use to keep all my books. And I had thousands of them. Those were the days it was just me in my little insulated world. Before having a husband or children. Just me and my books and my cat, Patches. And every time I would move, it would be me and my books and Patches. And the moving would be quite the “heavy” adventure.
After years of hauling books, I began to wonder what I was holding on to with these memories. I had read the books over and over again, or sometimes I was just finished with the book after one reading. Eventually I began to let go. Of my books.
But there were some books I kept. Mostly children’s books because I loved reading them with my grandchildren. And now, I just love looking through them now and again. For whatever reason, children’s books have a way of maintaining a special place, don’t you think?
The other day I received a large donation of children’s books to my Little Free Library Shed and this one was included. I thought, oh how fun it would be to imagine the type of foods that the various characters in Peter Rabbit’s world would love to eat.
And that is really what this book is about, except with recipes included. In this book!
There are buns, and vegetables and cabbage and carrot coleslaw and blackberry pudding and biscuits, and tea-time drinks, and so much more, hitting on all the types of meals that would include…breakfast and lunch and dessert.
What is special about this lovely little book, is that the recipes are laid out so that parents or teachers can easily prepare them with children. Which opens the adventure of reading and cooking with kids!
The other part of what makes this book so accessibly precious is that those that are into The Peter Rabbit stories, can appreciate that the characters are beautifully illustrated in this book, as well.
I would recommend reading a Peter Rabbit character story and then making one of the recipes from this book with the child/ren. It would make for a fun learning and teaching experience.
Reading Level: Age 3 – 7 years – Pre-school – 2nd grade
After years of hauling books, I began to wonder what I was holding on to with these memories. I had read the books over and over again, or sometimes I was just finished with the book after one reading. Eventually I began to let go. Of my books.
But there were some books I kept. Mostly children’s books because I loved reading them with my grandchildren. And now, I just love looking through them now and again. For whatever reason, children’s books have a way of maintaining a special place, don’t you think?
The other day I received a large donation of children’s books to my Little Free Library Shed and this one was included. I thought, oh how fun it would be to imagine the type of foods that the various characters in Peter Rabbit’s world would love to eat.
And that is really what this book is about, except with recipes included. In this book!
There are buns, and vegetables and cabbage and carrot coleslaw and blackberry pudding and biscuits, and tea-time drinks, and so much more, hitting on all the types of meals that would include…breakfast and lunch and dessert.
What is special about this lovely little book, is that the recipes are laid out so that parents or teachers can easily prepare them with children. Which opens the adventure of reading and cooking with kids!
The other part of what makes this book so accessibly precious is that those that are into The Peter Rabbit stories, can appreciate that the characters are beautifully illustrated in this book, as well.
I would recommend reading a Peter Rabbit character story and then making one of the recipes from this book with the child/ren. It would make for a fun learning and teaching experience.
Reading Level: Age 3 – 7 years – Pre-school – 2nd grade
November 30, 2025
'Oh dear,' cried Lucie, 'I specially need my apron because I want to have a party for Peter Rabbit and bake him a cake.'Lucie, who appears in The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle by Beatrix Potter, returns in this cookbook with a very important mission.
She meets up with Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and finds her apron, but before Lucie begins to cook...she realizes that she has a slight problem:
Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, being a kind and gentle soul, agrees to help and Lucie takes out a pencil and paper and wrote down this cookbooks for us.
'...Peter Rabbit has so many friends and they all like different things. Will you help me plan what to cook, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle?'
The cookbook then contains a myriad of recipes - about one per character from Potter's original tales. They are as follows:
The Recipes
--Mrs. Rabbit's Currant Buns
--Dips for Peter Rabbit's Favourite Vegetables
--Mr. McGregor's Cabbage and Carrot Coleslaw
--Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail's Blackberry Pudding
--Benjamin Bunny's Biscuits
--Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle's Refreshing Tea-Time Drinks
--Peppermints for Pig-Wig
--Pigling Bland's Porrige Oats Flapjacks
--Mr Jeremy Fisher's Fish Fingers
--Mr Jeremy Fisher's Sandwich Fillings
--Alderman Ptolemy Tortoise's Salad
--Mrs. Tabitha Twitchit's Scones
--Samuel Whiskers' Roly-Poly Sausage
--Jemima Puddle-Duck's Picnic Omelet
--Peter Rabbit's Party Cake
Some of the recipes are accompanied by screenshots from The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends (an animated series debuting in the early 1990s in the UK) or black-and-white drawings of the food/ingredients.
The recipes appear to be simple and mostly plant-based, which makes sense given these are recipes coming from the characters...though that premise breaks down a bit as you go further into the cookbook especially considering we are in a world full of anthropomorphic animals.
I'll explain: The premise is that Lucie's planning a party for all these characters - she's making peppermints and Flapjacks for the pigs...and using pork sausage for the Roly-Poly Sausage rolls. If Pig-Wig and Pigling Bland are coming to the party...I want to know who is in the sausage rolls!
The omelet being made in honor of Jemima Puddle-Duck and that feels equally horrifying when you consider how her greatest wish in her story was to be a mother and her recipe requires six eggs.
Now the recipe itself does not specify that the eggs come from a duck, but if you read the accompanying text, we learn:
What. The. Heck.
'the farmer's wife now permits me to hatch my own eggs, but I'm sure I can spare a few.'
Maybe I'm not meant to think this hard about the moral quandaries of an anthropomorphic animal society that contains animals that require wide variety of diets...moving along then...
One thing that was particularly nice throughout the cookbook was that the story from the very beginning (about Lucie writing down the recipes) is carried throughout the book. After reach recipe, we get another paragraph or two that expands on that narrative.
I was a little disappointed that when we got to the last recipe, we didn't get a few bonus paragraphs telling us if the party was a success...though...if my point about the pigs and the sausage roll pans out, maybe this wasn't quite the happy party Lucie was attempting.
All in all, I do like this cookbook. It's fun, quirky, and slightly horrifying. I love it and will be keeping it forever.
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