Five Little Bunnies: An Easter And Springtime Book For Kids

by Dan Yaccarino, Dan Yaccarino (Illustrator)

Overview

“A sturdy addition to the Easter basket.” —Kirkus

Get ready for spring with these five little bunnies as they hide brightly colored Easter eggs for all to find.

Toddlers will want to chant along with this fun take on a classic rhyme. With Dan Yaccarino’s vibrant and bold illustrations bringing these little bunnies to life, this sturdy board book is sure to captivate your littlest Easter cutie.

Five little bunnies went hippity hop. The first bunny said, “We’re here! Let’s stop!”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062253392
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	01/05/2016
Pages:	16
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 6.80(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 3 Years

About the Author

Dan Yaccarino is an internationally acclaimed author-illustrator with more than thirty children’s books to his credit, including I Am a Story, Five Little Pumpkins, Five Little Bunnies, Trashy Town, and Giant Tess. He also created and produced Nickelodeon’s Oswald and is the character designer behind The Backyardigans. You can visit him at www.yaccarinostudio.com.

Dan Yaccarino is an internationally acclaimed author-illustrator with more than thirty children’s books to his credit, including I Am a Story, Five Little Pumpkins, Five Little Bunnies, Trashy Town, and Giant Tess. He also created and produced Nickelodeon’s Oswald and is the character designer behind The Backyardigans. You can visit him at www.yaccarinostudio.com.

Editorial Reviews

Cheerful.” — Publishers Weekly

“A sturdy addition to the Easter basket.” — Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

02/08/2016
Five candy-colored bunnies hide Easter eggs in a bright green meadow for children to find in this cheerful board book. Rabe’s clipped rhymes follow the bunnies’ discussions: “The third bunny said, ‘The kids will find/ striped ones, spotted ones—every kind.’ ” As the bunnies watch, hidden in a bush, children arrive to locate the eggs. Yaccarino’s pastel palette and clean, curving forms create an inviting springtime atmosphere, though the decision to give the humans and bunnies black eyes with white irises makes them look slightly possessed—and not just by the Easter spirit. Up to age 4. Illustrator’s agent: Rebecca Sherman, Writers House. (Jan.)

Publishers Weekly

2016-03-02
Following on the successful Five Little Pumpkins (2003), Yaccarino teams with Rabe for bunnies. The five pastel bunnies are cute enough, and the rhymes are accurate, if somewhat wordy for toddlers. But without a clear one-to-one relationship between the words and the pictures, it is not always clear which bunny is speaking and what is being counted. The bunnies, identified as first, second, and so on, hop around the pages instead of staying in a consistent order as the rhyme implies. Naming them by color might have been a better choice, but that would mean abandoning the finger-play counting-rhyme formula. The children who show up to hunt the eggs are a multicultural cast of cartoonish figures with those in the background drawn as blue and green silhouettes. Though the text on the back cover invites children to count the eggs, there is no hint as to how many eggs they should find. Neither the verse nor the pictures provide counting assistance. The youngest children will not care about any of this; they will be content to point out the different colors of the bunnies and the patterns on the eggs. An acceptable and sturdy addition to the Easter basket for baby bunnies deemed too young to handle Dorothy Kunhardt's more satisfying but fragile classic, Pat the Bunny. (Board book. 1-3)

Kirkus Reviews