It is a wild autumn evening, and the Rabbit family is off through the woods to fetch a pumpkin. The wind is up, the trees creak, and Peter Rabbit is definitely not scared. Not even a little bit. But the woods are full of strange sights and sounds tonight, and perhaps even a strange somebody.

What the family actually meets out there turns the walk into something gentler than Peter feared, and the story lands with a reassuring ending that makes it a lovely pick for small listeners who are working out their own feelings about the dark. The artwork keeps the soft, hand-inked look of the classic Beatrix Potter world on every spread.

Sixteen sturdy board pages in a wide landscape format, sized for toddler hands and repeat reads. Shelve it with the pumpkins in October and it earns its place at bedtime straight through the fall.