Brer Rabbit Collection

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Brer Rabbit needs to be firmly reasserted into our understanding and appreciation of Beatrix Potter’s tales,” Zobel Marshall said. Potter’s grandfather, Edmund Potter, was a Manchester cotton mill owner whose wealth was inherited by Beatrix’s father, Rupert, a lawyer and photographer.

The Uncle Remus stories, as they became known, thanks to the name of Harris’s fictional African American narrator, were familiar to Potter. They are pretty funny in the middle because he has an idea and says ‘just don’t throw me in’, then he does and at the end, he’s escaped. But they're fantastic stories that spring to life off the page and never become tiresome despite the repetitive structure of them. The only redeeming feature about this book was the story about how Mr Lion went to a restaurant to have some soup, and then said he couldn't eat it.

Do all human cultures share stories with similar basic elements, which manifest themselves as expressions of basic human needs?

I’m currently on holiday abroad visiting family and have sadly only been able to bring a few physical books. Brer Rabbit goes in to sort the problem out, does not do so but convinces the others that he has so they offer him a share of their carrots when they get them back. Brer Rabbit' is from 'Br'er Rabbit' or 'Brother Rabbit' and is a character whose stories have been passed down in the oral tradition of African storytellers, particularly African-American and in the Caribbean. Bibliographical note: There is no publication date stated in this volume but it is believed to be the 1942 quoted in the catalogue entry. According to the Index Translationum, Blyton was the fifth most popular author in the world in 2007, coming after Lenin but ahead of Shakespeare.Copies of Harris’s Brer Rabbit folktale collections, bearing her father’s bookplate, were found at Potter’s home in the Lake District after she died in 1943.