The Strange But True Stories Behind Your Favorite Childhood Books

Peter Rabbit’s Father’s Gory Death

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I don’t know about you, but I don’t remember any gore in the original Peter Rabbit books.

Whoever was reading them to me must have skipped over the part where Mr. McGregor bakes Peter’s father into a pie and eats him. That’s why all the rabbits are scared to go into the garden.