id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3369 The Tale of Peter Rabbit - Wikipedia .html text/html 3895 333 71 In 1901, as Lear explains, a Potter family friend and sometime poet, Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley, set Potter's tale into "rather dreadful didactic verse and submitted it, along with Potter's illustrations and half her revised manuscript, to Frederick Warne & Co.," who had been among the original rejecters.[8] Warne editors declined Rawnsley's version "but asked to see the complete Potter manuscript" – their interest stimulated by the opportunity The Tale of Peter Rabbit offered the publisher to compete with the success of Helen Bannerman's wildly popular Little Black Sambo and other small-format children's books then on the market. Warne's New York office "failed to register the copyright for The Tale of Peter Rabbit in the United States"[This quote needs a citation], and unlicensed copies of the book "(from which Potter would receive no royalties) began to appear in the spring of 1903. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3369.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3369.txt