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Pat the Christmas Bunny Book and Bunny Gift Set-Baby's First Christmas (Pat the Bunny)

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First let me say that I am a Pat the Bunny fan. We bought Pat the Christmas Bunny for our daughter last Christmas because she liked the regular Pat the Bunny book so well. Unfortunately, after two Christmas seasons, I've concluded that this book lacks the charm of the original-- she never reaches for it and frequently loses interest in the middle of a reading.

One point of criticism is that the interactive activities are not very engaging. As with the original, there is a page to pet Pat the bunny, who is wearing a holiday scarf, but surely they could shake things up a bit and be more inventive. Other activities include a paper pencil to write a Christmas list, a tobogan to pull, a page where you lift Judy's arm to put the star on the tree, and a candy cane to sniff, but my daughter doesn't seem to care much about any of them. Another criticism of this book is that it is not especially durable, in particular for a book that markets itself to younger children. I have to closely monitor her so that she doesn't rip the tobogan off its track.

Simply put, Pat the bunny deserves a better Christmas adaptation...one that retains the charm of the original. If you are a Pat fan, you'll still want to have this in your Christmas collection, but there are better interactive Christmas books out there that I would buy first. For example, check out David Carter's two Christmas books.

The idea behind the book is great, engage the child's tactile senses while progressing through a Christmas scenario: pat the bunny, write a list for Santa, smell the peppermint candy cane, pull the tobaggen etc. However, the actual physical construction of the book is so poor as to make many of the activities impossible to execute. The pencil does not write (it is only a paper facsimile), there has never been a scent retained for the peppermint candy cane, movable pieces come too easily detached (girl's arm that puts the star on the Christmas tree, the tobaggen) and the the binding is weak. I would recommend this book only for collector's of the series, but not for actual usage with a child.