Little Grey Rabbit facts for kids

Little Grey Rabbit is the lead character in a classic, eponymous series of English children's books written by Alison Uttley and illustrated by Margaret Tempest (the last five illustrated by Katherine Wigglesworth). The series appeared over a forty-year period up to the mid-1970s. They gave rise to a TV film series in 2000.

Characters

• Little Grey Rabbit – a modest, gentle, motherly soul, who lives with two friends, Hare and Squirrel
• Hare – a boastful fellow up for a little adventure, who cares about his friends
• Squirrel – a self-centred creature, who cares about her looks, but is affectionate
• Milkman Hedgehog – who milks the cows and distributes the milk to the animals
• Mrs. Hedgehog – Milkman's wife
• Fuzzypeg – Milkman and Mrs. Hedgehog's excitable son
• Bill and Tim Hedgehog – Fuzzypeg's cousins
• Brush – a wandering hedgehog
• Robin – the postman
• Water Rat
• Mrs Webster, a water vole
• Rat – a friend of the hens at the hen house
• Brock the Badger
• Fox – a troublesome sort, who plots to make a meal out one of the animals
• Speckledy Hen – who gives out eggs that she lays to her friends
• Moldy Warp – a mole
• Wise Owl – a source of information, but often grumpy if disturbed in the daytime

Books

The books marked* featured in the TV series of the year 2000.

Heinemann

Collins

Television series

In January 2000, Cosgrove Hall Films created an animated TV series consisting of 26 episodes based closely on the books, each 10 minutes in length. Their success was more modest than that of the books.

The series was traditionally animated by Cosgrove Hall Films.

Episode List

Cast

Crew