When Walt Disney offered to adapt the Tale of Peter Rabbit for film in 1936, Beatrix Potter did not hesitate: the answer was no.
Dennison said Potter would not have been keen on television or film, and suggested the only successful adaptation of her work was the ballet.
Dennison said the film, in which James Corden is the voice of a CGI, twerking Peter, changes the essential character of its eponymous hero.
Libby Joy, of the Beatrix Potter Society, agreed that the author would not have approved of something “so far removed from her original story”.
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