Hush-A-Bye Bunny

by Holly Surplice (Illustrator)

Overview

This sweetly illustrated story from Holly Surplice is perfect for comforting sleepy little ones who don’t like being left alone when it’s time to turn out the light.

It’s time for Bunny to go to bed, and he happily has his dinner, bath, and story. But when it’s time to go to sleep and he gets tearful, Mommy Bunny knows just what to say to reassure her little one. This sweetly illustrated story from Holly Surplice is perfect for comforting sleepy little ones who don’t like being left alone when it’s time to turn out the light.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780763694593
Publisher:	Candlewick Press
Publication date:	03/07/2017
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	16
Product dimensions:	8.31(w) x 8.31(h) x 0.69(d)
Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

About the Author

Holly Surplice was born and brought up near Dumfries, Scotland, where living on a farm nurtured a fascination and love of animals that continues to feed her work as an artist and illustrator today. She is also the author-illustrator of Guinea Pig Party. After traveling as far as the Galapagos, she now lives and works in Edinburgh, Scotland, with her husband, their young daughter, and a Dalmatian named Marbles.

Editorial Reviews

Going through this everyday routine with Bunny may assist adults in putting their own little bunnies to bed.
—Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2017-03-15
It's that time of the day when Bunny must put all the toys away, eat a delicious dinner of carrots, radishes, and greens, have a bath, put on pajamas, and cuddle up with a loving adult rabbit while they read a book together. The text is a loving, soothing four-line rhyme on every double-page spread, each one starting with the same first line: "Hush-a-bye, Bunny / my sweet sleepyhead. / Let's eat up our dinner— / it's soon time for bed." The pastel illustrations show a charming little toddler Bunny wearing a striped green shirt playing with gender-neutral toys (stuffed animals, balls, coloring books) and then going through the usual evening routine up to donning a yellow polka-dot sleeper after the bath and listening to the older rabbit read a bunny mermaid book. However, when it's time to get into bed and switch off the light, Bunny is not happy and gets tearful. The adult rabbit promises to "hug away worries / and kiss away tears," which helps comfort Bunny into slumber. Back-of-the-book text refers to the adult rabbit, who wears a reddish-pink striped shirt, as Mommy Bunny, but the tender relationship they enjoy together is one that could exist between any loving adult and child. Going through this everyday routine with Bunny may assist adults in putting their own little bunnies to bed. (Board book. 1-3)

Kirkus Reviews