Bunny My Honey by Anita Jeram (2000-04-03) - Softcover

Jeram, Anita

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0744572835 ISBN 13: 9780744572834

Publisher: Gardners Books, 2000

Synopsis

Bunny knows how to do lots of special rabbity things, like running and hopping, digging, and thumping his great big feet. But when he runs too far one day and gets lost deep in the woods, there's only one thing he wants: an adoring Mommy Rabbit to cuddle him and put her twitchy nose on his. The incomparable Anita Jeram, illustrator of the all-time classic series about the Nutbrown Hares and many other beloved tales, offers a sweetly reassuring read-aloud for the youngest of children.

About this title

About the Author:

Anita Jeram says, "Small children don't realize how dependent they are on their parents until they lose contact with them. It doesn't matter if they're only one aisle over in the supermarket—it feels like a hundred miles away. The world seems a much bigger and scarier place when you're disconnected from the ones who love you."

From Publishers Weekly:

Jeram covers familiar ground in this sweet tale of a lost bunny rescued by his mother. Echoes of Margaret Wise Brown reverberate throughout, both in the use of repetition ("The more Bunny looked for his friends and his mommy the more lost and the more lost and the more lost he became") and in the inclusion of a little ditty that Bunny and his friends, Miss Mouse and Little Duckling, are wont to sing: "We're the little Honeys/ A little Honey is sweet./ Quack quack, squeak squeak,/ Thump your GREAT BIG feet!" In a bit of visual deja vu, Jeram reprises the artistic style employed so successfully in her illustrations for Sam McBratney's Guess How Much I Love You, again hewing to a soft, woodsy palette of mossy greens and browns, and tucking in the kind of small details?mushrooms, a snail who pops up on nearly every page, a duckling splashing in a puddle?that delight the very young. The humorous moments showcase Jeram at her best, as when Bunny, in his search for his mother, parts the fronds of a fern and peers quizzically through. While the path is well worn, the trek is a comfortable one, and the conclusion will elicit smiles all around. Ages 2-5.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Gardners Books
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0744572835
• ISBN 13: 9780744572834
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 40