What Does Bunny See?

June 1, 2005
PreS-K -Bunny hops through a garden and is introduced to different colors and flowers along the way. The rhymed text, stilted at times, gives readers clues as to the hue that will appear on the next page. For instance, -In a cottage garden/ears and whiskers clean/Bunny finds a patch of lawn/what she sees is -B-green! - After she is done exploring, she curls up in her nest where she -dreams a rainbow dream/colors blossom-bright. - The watercolor-and-pencil illustrations do a good job of bringing the blossoms to life: orange tiger lilies, yellow primroses, and green clover and grass are easily identifiable and gracefully drawn. Bunny has expressive features and fuzzy gray fur. This is an attractive and effective concept book and may, as such, be a useful purchase. Yet it is doubtful that the character or the presentation itself will ever gain -read it again - status. - "Lisa Gangemi Kropp, Middle Country Public Library, Centereach, NY"

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March 1, 2005
PreS. Lots of books teach children to recognize colors, but this one also provides a lesson in flower identification. A bunny hops through a cottage garden, passing flowers in their beds: "Bunny hopping down the path. / What she sees is . . . " When children turn the page, they'll see the word " red." The profusion of flowers is also identified: "Blushing scarlet poppies bloom / just above her head." Not all the colors are so easy to rhyme. Yellow is rhymed with " willow" and " pillow," and because no word rhymes with orange, "" o"(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2005, American Library Association.)

July 1, 2005
"In a cottage garden / flowers in their beds / Bunny hopping down the path / what she sees is...." The color that concludes each snappy rhyme (Park sneaks around the perennial difficulty of rhyming "orange") prompts a sentence about a flower of that hue. The occasionally precious text is accompanied by suitably cutesy watercolor and pencil art.

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