Trouble for Breakfast. This item is unavailable.Trouble for Breakfast

With Mama Cactus-Eared Rabbit down with the flu, her mischievous twins, Munchit and Crunchit, and their friends--Rufus Coyote and his grumpy sister, Greyer, and cousin Arnold the Armadillo--set out to cook Mama a perfect get-well meal

Kindergarten-Grade 2-- A forgettable effort that's as rambling and disjointed as a story told by a four-year-old. While Mrs. Cactus-Eared Rabbit is bedridden with a cold, her children and their friends make breakfast. Predictably, they make an enormous mess, spilling and scorching with abandon. A gruesome meal of boiled-down chicken soup and coffee, served inside a strange edifice built of burned muffins and butter, inexplicably revives Mrs. Rabbit. She heads for the kitchen, to the dismay of the children. " 'Don't worry . . . everything's okay!' " shouts Greyer Coyote, standing in the midst of chaos. "And so it was," reads the final page, with all the animals sipping milk at a suddenly spic-and-span table. Even the smallest listener won't believe the situation was resolved so quickly and painlessly. Busy, childlike watercolors can't overcome the silly story and awkward writing. For messy-breakfast stories with more appeal, go with Jillian Wynot's The Mother's Day Sandwich (Orchard) and No Thumpin', No Bumpin', No Rumpus Tonight (Atheneum, both 1990) by Nancy Patz. --Lucy Young Clem, Evansville Vanderburgh County Public Library, IN
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