- Adele Aron Greenspun, / Hardcover / Published 2000
Baby and Bunny pop bubbles, look at books, wear beads, and chase each other through pretty fields and purple gardens. With its soft yellows, violets, and greens, this delicately decorated story about friendship lost and found unfolds in fewer than five words per page. "Baby touches Bunny's nose." "Bunny chases a ball." All goes well, everyone's getting along swimmingly... until "Bunny hops away." Will Baby find Bunny? Only time and a few lovely pages will tell. The mother-daughter team of Adele Aron Greenspun and Joanie Schwarz has created a simple, sweet tale with few words and soft photographs of a sweater-clad baby and a droopy-eared bunny--both real, both adorable. Each picture is elaborately framed with hazy, dreamlike backgrounds of rolling meadows and distant woodlands. There's not much of a story here, but it won't matter; pre-readers will love the unusual pictures and realistic, unembellished language
- Watership Down:
- by Richard Adams
- Watership Down is one of those wonderful works that appeals to readers both young and old. Chronicles the adventures of a group of rabbits searching for a safe place to establish a new warren where they can
- live in peace. Their travels into unfamiliar yards, farms, and fields makes for an
imaginative, captivating journey.
- Tales From Watership Down:
- by Richard Adams
- This latest work follows the aftermath of the original's climactic
- ending and includes the rabbits' retelling of various myths, plus some new twists and developments. This is a captivating introduction to Adams's warren for first-time visitors, and those who loved the original Watership Down won't be disappointed.
The Mitten: A Ukrainian Folktale: - by Jan Brett
- When Nicki drops one of his new white mittens in the snow, he doesn't
- even notice it's missing. One by one, the woodland animals discover
- the mitten and crawl inside, each one larger than the last: a mole, a
- rabbit, even a big, brown bear! Beautifully illustrated by Jan Brett.
- The Complete Tales : The 23 Original Peter Rabbit Books & 4 Unpublished Works:
- by Beatrix Potter
- This volume brings all of Beatrix Potter's 23 Peter Rabbit Tales together in one book. Arranged in the order in which they were first published, the stories are complete and unabridged with the original color illustrations by Potter.
- The Velveteen Rabbit:
- by Margery Williams
- A stuffed toy rabbit comes to life in Margery Williams's timeless tale
- of the Tranformative power of love. This sentimental classic--perfect
- for any child who's ever thought that maybe, just maybe, his or her
- toys have feelings--has been charming children since its first
- publication in 1922.
- When Only the Love Remains: The Pain of Pet Loss
- by Emily Margaret
Stuparyk
- In this sensitive and honest work, the author shares her truest feeling about losing her beloved pet rabbit. Her feelings show us that having an animal loss (as opposed to human loss) in one's life does not diminish it's intensity or grief. The bond between animal and human is so great (in the shamanistic sense, the rabbit has become her power animal) that upon losing the pet, she has lost a part of herself. As with a human loss, another rabbit cannot replace the one who has died. She shows us how she passes from one stage of grief to another. In time, she realizes that Poochie, the rabbit never left her side and her memories enable her to go on with her life. This book is the most beautifully sensitive account of one's experience with pet loss. As the poems are written straight from the heart, you will laugh and cry as you learn how Poochie made such a great impact on the author's life.
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