Anthropomorphic rabbits and destruction in picture books: encouraging the child reader to reframe traumatic experiences in Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902) and Shaun Tan's The Rabbits (1998)

• Main Author: Tai, Jia Xuan
• Other Authors: Katherine Blyn Wakely-Mulroney
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2024
• Subjects: Arts and Humanities; Trauma; Anthropomophic rabbits; Picture book theory; Implied child reader; Children's literature; Children's picture books
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/178100
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Children’s picture books are known to entice and engage child readers while holding the potential to convey difficult subjects. For instance, through the intersection of text and images, Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit (1902) and John Marsden and Shaun Tan’s The Rabbits (1998) feature themes of trespa...