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Synopsis
Having made a plan with Bear to spend the winter napping in a cozy home, Rabbit finds himself too energetic to sleep and decides to join the world outside
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From Booklist
Ages 5-9. With a rhyme that's pleasant to the ear, if not always clearly understandable to young listeners, Willard introduces a bear who invites a bunny to share his lair during the long, snowy winter. The rabbit agrees, but as soon as the bear falls asleep, the rabbit has second thoughts: "Some go in green, some go in white. / The snow's footfall is very light. / It is not wise for us, dear bear, / when snow combs silver from her hair / and stars are shears and hills are sheep, / it will not do to fall asleep. / How inconvenient to play dead!" Like lightning, the rabbit is out the door of the cave, back into the sunlight. Pinkney's impressive two-page spreads fill the pages with stars, snow, leaves, trees, and, of course, the two unlikely roommates. Graceful in both picture and word, this creates a mood that transcends the intricacies of the text. Ilene Cooper
From Kirkus Reviews
In gossamer lyric verse, delicate as early snow, a whimsical tale of a reluctant rabbit who's persuaded to join his friend the bear in a long, safe winter sleep, only to find himself tossing and turning alone: ```O prudent friend! O sleeping stone!'/The rabbit poked his silent back./`How I should love a little snack,/a tuft of grass, a bunch of bark,/a star to tame the lonely dark'''--and he escapes to dance ``in starlit somersaults downhill,'' through the snow. Pinkney's watercolors are lusciously tactile, the monumental, somnolent bear wedged into generous double spreads while his ever-alert friend springs from clover to stream and almost off the page on a marvelous final foldout spread. Delectable. (Picture book. 4+) -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- PublisherLittle Brown & Co
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0316941298
- ISBN 13 9780316941297
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages32
- IllustratorPinkney Jerry
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