
He decides to play a trick upon him involving a pail of water balanced on the overhead tester of the bed. The fox discovers the badger asleep in his bed, and originally plans to hit him, but decides against this due to the Badger's teeth. Tod suddenly arrives in a very bad temper, which has caused him to move house. They try to dig a tunnel into the house but hide when Mr. They realise the bunnies are alive, but shut in the oven. Tod's bed, and, peeping through the kitchen window, they see the table set for a meal.

Peeping through the bedroom window, the rabbits see Tommy asleep in Mr. Tod, a fox, has multiple homes but keeps moving. When the parents return, Benjamin sets off in pursuit of the thief.īenjamin finds and brings his cousin Peter Rabbit into the rescue venture, and the two discover Tommy has invaded one of Mr. Tommy puts the bunnies in his sack and slips out. Bouncer has been left to tend his grandchildren while his son and daughter-in-law Flopsy are away, but, after smoking a pipe of rabbit-tobacco, he falls asleep in Tommy's company. The tale begins with Tommy Brock, a badger, being entertained by old Mr. In 1995, an animated film adaptation of the tale was featured on the BBC television anthology series The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends. She continued to publish sporadically but used decades-old concepts and sketches rather than new images and ideas. The two tales were the last completely original productions by Potter. Tod and its 1913 follower, The Tale of Pigling Bland, were published in the new formats, but the idea was eventually dropped and the ordinary bindings were adopted for reprints. Tod to be the first in a new series of Peter Rabbit tales in larger formats with elaborate bindings, but Potter disliked the idea. The tale is critically considered one of Potter's "most complex and successful in plot and tone." Black and white illustrations outnumber those in colour. The tale was influenced by the Uncle Remus stories, and was set in the fields of Potter's Castle Farm. Under cover of the fight, the rabbits rescue the baby rabbits. His initial attempt fails, and the two eventually come to blows. Tod finds Brock asleep in his bed, he determines to get him out of the house. Benjamin and his cousin Peter Rabbit have followed Tommy Brock in an attempt to rescue the babies. Brock kidnaps the children of Benjamin Bunny and his wife Flopsy, intending to eat them, and hides them in an oven in the home of Mr.


The tale is about a badger called Tommy Brock and his arch enemy Mr. Tod is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, first published by Frederick Warne & Co.
