The story focuses on Peter, a young rabbit, and his family. Peter's mother, Mrs. Rabbit, intends to go shopping for the day and allows Peter and her other three children, Peter's sisters: Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail to go playing.
Rabbit, as well as his younger sisters, Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail (with Peter the eldest of the four little rabbits) live in a rabbit hole that has a human kitchen, human furniture, as well as a shop where Mrs. Rabbit sells various items.
Flopsy Rabbit and Mopsy Rabbit are 2 twin sisters with one another. They are always seen with each other, doing everything together and are hardly ever apart from one another.
Peter: Peter is a naughty rabbit who disobeys his mother. (He is the eldest of the four little rabbits.) Flopsy: Flopsy is Peter's sister who is a good rabbit. (She is the second youngest of the four siblings.)
Peter idolizes his father who is acknowledged as being deceased multiple times in the TV series. Exactly how he died in the TV series remains a mystery, but if it's the same as the books, he was put into a pie by Mrs. McGregor, who isn't physically present in the TV series. According to the movie, he got hit by a rake.
Aficionados of Beatrix Potter will know that there was indeed a little black rabbit character in her stories – he turned up in Appley Dappley's Nursery rhymes when courting Peter's sister Cottontail and then again as her husband in The Tale of Mr Tod: amongst all of the characters in all of her books he achieved just ...
The moral of The Tale of Peter Rabbit is that there are consequences to our actions. The world has many dangers, and it's important to listen to directions to avoid them.
Lily Bobtail – Peter and Benjamin's quick-witted female best friend, who carries many useful objects in her pocket. Unlike cousins Peter and Benjamin who were based on the books by Beatrix Potter, Lily is a newcomer who was created by the production team for the series.
Peter Rabbit has begun to believe that being a rabbit isn't all it's cracked up to be. His mother is always making him do chores and he's had enough of his goody two-shoes twin sisters: Flopsy and Mopsy.
In The Flopsy Bunnies, Benjamin Bunny (son of Old Mr. Bunny) and Peter Rabbit are adults, and Benjamin has married his cousin Flopsy (one of Peter's sisters). As for Peter, Mopsy, and Cotton-Tail, they haven't been married yet and still live with their mother (Mrs. Josephine Rabbit).
Cottontail Bunny is Peter Rabbit's third sister. Made of finest mohair, her big brown eyes and long lashes lend her an endearingly cheeky expression. And her hand-stitched nose, long whiskers and elaborate airbrush painting all combine to give her a truly authentic character.
One of his character traits in the books is a tendency to put on airs, which drives the plot of one of Burgess's most popular books, The Adventures of Peter Cottontail (1917), which you can read here. In this story, Peter decides his real name, Peter Rabbit, is too common, and changes it to Peter Cottontail.
BARNABAS. Street rabbit Barnabas once knew Peter's dad and was his partner in veggie crime. Along with his friends Samuel Whiskers, Tom Kitten and Mittens, the bad bunny will tempt Peter with a life of crime, too.
Though author Beatrix Potter based his character on her own pet, Peter Piper, a Belgian buck rabbit or 'Belgian Hare', in her illustrations he more closely resembles a European rabbit, with a distinctive white fluffy tail.
The Tittlemouse siblings: Albert, Louisa and Stanley are mice siblings consisting of two brothers and one sister. They are known to eat peas for food and their main goal is basically to just survive.
