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She spent her later life farming in the Lake District.","1866-07-28","1943-12-22","story",1909,"children's literature",true,"2026-10-22","The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies: A2 English Book PDF | FluencyRoad","Read Beatrix Potter's Flopsy Bunnies in English: about 1,100 words, short sentences. Key vocabulary, quotes and a free public-domain PDF or EPUB.","Benjamin Bunny has grown up and married his cousin Flopsy, and their many children are known as the Flopsy Bunnies. After eating too many lettuces from Mr. McGregor's rubbish heap, the little rabbits fall asleep, and Mr. McGregor puts all six into a sack. A wood mouse called Thomasina Tittlemouse nibbles a hole in it, and the parents fill the empty sack with old vegetables, so Mr. and Mrs. McGregor get a very angry surprise at home.","This is a sequel to Peter Rabbit: Peter now has his own garden, and Benjamin is a father. The estimated level is A2. Most sentences are short (fewer than ten words on average) and the story moves in small, clear steps. The famous first line plays with one difficult word, soporific, and then hints at its meaning with a joke, which is a good model for the whole book: let the story help you guess the hard words. The dialogue includes Mr. McGregor's country accent, such as 'leetle' for little.",[24,25,26],"family","teamwork","a clever escape",[28,29,30,31,32],"Benjamin Bunny","Flopsy","the Flopsy Bunnies","Thomasina Tittlemouse","Mr. and Mrs. McGregor",[34,35,36],"It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is \"soporific.\"","But Mrs. Tittlemouse was a resourceful person.","One, two, three, four, five, six leetle rabbits!","It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is \"soporific.\" I have never felt sleepy after eating lettuces; but then I am not a rabbit. 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