The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit but a carrot and a rabbit tail on the bench. The good rabbit then sees the bad rabbit running away without his whiskers and tail. "The Tale of A Fierce Bad Rabbit" was written for Louie Warne, the daughter of Potter's publisher, Harold Warne. The child thought Peter Rabbit much too well-behaved and wanted a story about a truly bad rabbit. Potter was experimenting with toy books at the time and "A Fierce Bad Rabbit" was published for Christmas 1906 in a panorama format of fourteen pictures and text printed from left to right on a long strip of paper
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