The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit moralizing and stiff illustrations. Most damaging to the book's success are the two rabbits. Both lack the adorable cuteness of Peter Rabbit and his kin. "A Fierce Bad Rabbit" focuses on a traditional rather than a creative approach to storytelling and reflects Potter's inexperience with babies and very young children. She appears to be more interested in naming and designating this or that rather than developing plot and exploring character. She names and directs the child's attention to the rabbit's tail, whiskers, and claws, for example, rather than to the animal's facial expression. When the hunter appears, he is blandly
His Hare-Raising Tale His Hare-Raising Tale His Hare-Raising Tale is a 1951 Warner Bros. "Looney Tunes" (reissued as a Blue Ribbon "Merrie Melodies") short, directed by Friz Freleng and written by Warren Foster. This cartoon consists primarily of clips from five previous cartoons: "Baseball Bugs" (1946); "Stage Door Cartoon" (1944); "Rabbit Punch" (1948); "Falling Hare" (1943); and "Haredevil Hare" (1948). Bugs Bunny and his nephew Clyde Rabbit are sitting on a couch looking at a scrap book depicting various photographs and newspaper clippings of Bugs. In this cartoon Clyde is unnamed. Segment one has Clyde asking if Uncle Bugs was a baseball pitcher