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The World of Beatrix Potter Attraction opened its Peter Rabbit Garden in 2009. The opening of the Garden added a fantastic new element which complemented the indoor part of the Attraction and began to tell the story of Beatrix Potter the naturalist. The Garden was designed by Chelsea RHS Gold medal winner Richard Lucas (left), and as you'll see, he has successfully recreated a number of the garden scenes from Beatrix's best-loved Tales.

Critics have found a number of ways to describe Sony Pictures’ new adaptation of Beatrix Potter’s mischievous yet beloved bunny, “Peter Rabbit.” The modern Peter Rabbit is a frat bro, a “raging narcissist,” a vandal that escalates a feud into a “truly sadistic display of violence.” Now, the bunny character has been billed as something else — a food allergy bully. The scene prompted intense backlash from allergy advocacy groups and parents of children with food allergies, who said it mocked an attack that in real life could have proved fatal. The segment led to a hashtag — #boycottpeterrabbit —...

But there’s something genuinely harrowing about the sight of Peter Rabbit – gentle, Edwardian Peter Rabbit – thoughtlessly injuring some birds, or grabbing a pile of lettuce leaves and making it rain like a banker in a stripclub, or literally twerking. No joke, all of these things happen in the trailer. There’s even a moment where a badger hurls a hedgehog at a dartboard, and it’s so much like the dwarf-throwing scene from The Wolf of Wall Street that you’re left with the incontrovertible feeling that this entire venture was put together by people who genuinely hate Peter Rabbit. Just...

April 7, 2007 — A Rhode Island public school has decided the Easter bunny is too Christian and renamed him Peter Rabbit, and a state legislator is so hopping mad he has introduced an "Easter Bunny Act" to save the bunny's good name. "Like many Rhode Islanders I'm quite frustrated … by people trying to change traditions that we've held in this country for 150 years, like the Easter bunny," Rhode Island State Rep. Richard Singleton told "Good Morning America Weekend Edition."

Jun 23, 9:12 AM EDT 'Peter Rabbit' Caught in Legal DisputeBEIJING (AP) -- Peter Rabbit has hopped into a Chinese legal dispute. One of China's leading academic publishers has been ordered by the government to stop selling its version of Beatrix Potter's 1901 tale about the naughty bunny, lawyers said Monday. The order stems from what a Chinese legal newspaper said is the first dispute of its kind in this country, which often is accused of failing to enforce copyrights and other intellectual property. The Chinese-language "Tale of Peter Rabbit," released in April by China Social Sciences Press, prompted a...