Reading level: pk-3
Awards: best seller

AR: 2.7

This book is a beautiful story. (It's also great for STEM storytimes and If/Then statements) ( )

Genre
Classics
Page to screen
Picture books for children
Tone
Feel-good
Writing Style
Well-crafted dialogue
Subject
Imagination
Mother and child
Rabbits
Runaway children

I never thought much of this book the first time I read it, but with this re-read I really like the little battle of wits between the mother rabbit and her son.

And this time I was more struck by things that escaped me before, like the sails on the bunny boat being elongated ears and the connections to Goodnight Moon. I see now that the image of the mother bunny fishing for her runaway bunny recurs as paintings in the other two books in addition to the moon motif. In the Goodnight Moon Extended Universe, it seems that whole book is a joyful bedtime story told by the mother rabbit of this book to her bunny in their den under a tree, and the companion book My World is a bleak and bitter tale told later as her relationship with the bunny's father crumbles. Wild.

Side note: This is in my old book database as book #1522 with "indifferent" ratings. ( )