The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Beatrix Potter, 1902.
Peter Rabbit ignores his mother and squeezes under the gate into Mr. McGregor's garden, where he eats too many vegetables and has to run for his life. A very short classic for young children.
Public-domain text. First published in 1902; Beatrix Potter died in 1943, so this text is in the public domain in the US, Canada, the EU and India. Summary and notes written by ViralScopeHub.