Beatrix Potter: Children's Books

Beatrix Potter does a great job at appealing to her younger audience by using cute, cuddly animals as characters for her Books.  The way she illustrates each book only emphasizes the amount of lovability for each character.  With these cute characters she is able to entertain her audience while sill adding a moral for the children to learn.  There are two of her works in particular that portray both Beatrix Potter’s way of capturing her audience and teaching her audience a lesson in an entertaining manner.

           “The Tale of Tom Kitten” is one of my favorite children’s books by Beatrix Potter because of the characters.  Its main characters are three adorable, little kittens that are forced to wear clothes for their mother.  Their mother wishes the kittens to look nice for company so the kittens struggle to keep their clothes on and clean.  Most little girls find kittens to be cute, cuddly creatures that they wish to touch; by adding clothes to the kittens, not only creates more of the plot, but also adds to how adorable the kittens are portrayed.  Beatrix Potter with the use of these cute character convoys the message that it is important to listen to your mother.  The three kittens are required to wear clothes by their mother for company visiting and she warns them that they must stay clean and that they should stay away from the Puddle-Ducks.  Even though the kittens listen to their mother at first, they still end up getting dirty and then losing their clothes to the Puddle-Ducks because of this they are punished.
            “The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit” is a story of two cute rabbits that any child finds adorable.  However, this story even with these cute characters teaches the audience an important lesson.  The fierce bad Rabbit is a mean rabbit and picks on the nice gentle Rabbit throughout the story.  In the end of the book the fierce bad Rabbit pays his misdeeds by losing his tail to a hunter.  This is how Beatrix Potter displays the lesson that if you cause misfortune to others that misfortune will befall you.