Emmaline and the Bunny
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780061626548 (0061626546)
Publish date: March 1st 2009
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Pages no: 112
Edition language: English
Emmaline probably suffered from my expectations of another wondrous book/heroine like Ida B, but I thought it was just OK. Emmaline lives in Neatasapin, only she is not a tidy child. She likes to run and dig in the dirt, and shout, and most of all she wants a bunny to snuggle and dig and hop & hol...
I was looking forward to this book, as I was a fan of Ida B, but didn't enjoy it's overly cutesy language. I read it to several 1st grade classes and felt like I was patronizing them.
This is a lovely children's book about a lonely little girl who wants a bunny. Emmaline lives on Shipshape Street in Neatasapin. Everything there was very tidy. The mayor, a portly man named Orson Oliphant, demanded order and neatness. If anything didn't meet his standards, it was removed. The trees...
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