Happy Easter everyone!
10 Books about rabbits
10. Stories Rabbits Tell: A Natural and Cultural History of a Misunderstood Creature by Susan E. Davis
A non-fiction look at rabbits as pets, pests, prey, and a mythic figure-in history. The book looks at things like the fact that the rabbit is one of the few animals that westerners use as both a pet and a food source.
9. Disapproving Rabbits by Sharon Stiteler
Its hard for a rabbit to look at you disapprovingly but they’ve managed. In the spirit of the Lol Cats, and funny animal photos everywhere this book may not stimulate the mind but will at least get a few smiles.
8. The Book of Bunny Suicides by Andy Riley
Book of Bunny Suicides follows over one hundred bunnies as they find ever more outlandish ways to do themselves in.
7. Max and Ruby Books by Rosemary Wells
This set of Canadian bunnies entertain and teach preschoolers lessons like sharing and citizenship though the general anamorphic activities you come to expect from a pair of cartoon rabbits. They’re a little new to the scene but the kids just love em!
6. The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
A picture book from the author of Goodnight Moon about a small rabbit who wants to run away but is followed by its mother.
5. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
A 26 year old basketball player, not a furry big eared mammal however non-the-less famous. Updikes most memorable character, and the man had a lot, was not contained to this single novel but was spread to include Rabit Redux, Rabbit is Rich, Rabbit at Rest and Rabbit Remembered.
4. Watership Down by Richard Adams
Set in England’s Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of adventure, courage and survival follows a band of rabbits on their flight from the intrusion of man and the certain destruction of their home. Led by a stouthearted pair of brothers, they journey forth from their native Sandleford Warren through the harrowing trials posed by predators and adversaries, to a mysterious promised land and a more perfect society.
3. The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
Margery Williams’s treasured childhood classic tells how a toy rabbit learns what it means to be loved by a child–and how toys become “Real.” The story was first published in 1922, and has since been republished umteen times with varous cover art. I prefer the earlier illustrations as this was one of my favourite stories as a child.
2. The Tortoise & the Hare
The classic Aesop fable of the over confidante rabbit who learns that slow and steady wins the race the hard way
1. The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
Peter Rabbit and his three sisters (Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail) live with their mother under the roots of a large fir tree. Peter, who is an adventurous young bunny, invades the garden of Mr. McGregor, despite his mother’s orders not to do so, as his father had met with an unfortunate accident there and was made into a pie.