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Lessons from Peter Rabbit by Janet Jones

“Rabbits are brave…rabbits are brave…” So says Benjamin Bunny, a diminutive little guy with a green knit cap holding down long bunny ears. In the Nickelodeon show, Peter Rabbit, Benjamin Bunny is the personification of the skittish, scared-stiff rabbit, softened by his fierce loyalty to his adventurous cousin Peter. He has an adorable, innate clumsiness and a comically growling stomach that is always hungry for radishes and strawberries. I adore Benjamin Bunny. And so does my three-year-old granddaughter, Elsie. She

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