Peter Rabbit

I loved class on Wednesday. Reading Peter Rabbit brought back so many memories of when I used to read that book as a child. Naturally, like all the other kids, I found myself rooting for Peter eventhough he was technically in the wrong the whole book for disobeying his mother. I assumed, like most other children's books, that it was didactic and wanted to teach kids a lesson about disobeying mom. I never even considered the possibility that Potter wanted to emphasize the "let boys by boys" attitude. Its funny how I view things differently now than I did back then. I also found it very interesting to know that Beatrix Potter wanted her book to be so small that children could put their tiny hands around it. I say this because when I was a child, I loved being able to hold the small books in my hands, and I remember I would choose small books over normal sized ones. That is pretty neat that an author would think so much about what her readers would need out of the book.