Funny Bunnies [Paperback]

Laurie Frankel (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2004

Here we have a bevy of bunny beauty with everything from fuzzy tails to floppy ears to stylish coats to Belgian hare styles. Funny Bunnies celebrates the many snuggly virtues of these adorable companions with 75 color photographs of 30 different breeds. This charming, visual hop along the bunny trail also includes fun-to-read details about each breed, such as its origins, coat, and behavior, as well as distinctive and downright adorable characteristics. We meet the English Lop, the oldest known domestic breed of rabbit, dubbed "King of the Fancy" by rabbit aficionados, who boasts ears up to twelve inches long. There's the sweet-natured Chinchilla Giant, renowned for its girth, weighing in at up to 16 pounds, and the Netherland Dwarf, who comes in a rainbow of rabbit colors and is small enough to nestle in the palm of your hand. Readers will marvel at the long fur of the Angora rabbit, which grows at the rate of an inch a month and is used like wool to make cozy sweaters. A great gift at Easter or anytime, Funny Bunnies includes a recommended reading list as well as a bunny resource section with tips to help bunny lovers learn more and even select an appropriate carrot-nibbling companion. If the lovable Fuzzy Lop, the Beveren with to-die-for eyes, and the wee Dutch featured in these pages don't melt your heart, you may not be bunny people after all.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Photographer Frankel’s whimsical and merry collection of portraits of 30 breeds of rabbits is guaranteed to make readers smile (indeed, Frankel declares the book an "unfailing mood enhancer" in her introduction). She gives comparatively little information on each breed’s characteristics (though she always reveals a breed’s origin, weight and color variations), but compensates, perhaps, by offering thumbnail sketches of her individual subjects: "Sparky is a daredevil," she writes about an English Spot rabbit. "He likes racing and will chase the mail carrier when he gets a chance." Packed with fluff and a few bits of fact (including a resource section and a recommended reading list), this volume is sure to please a bunny-lover. But few with a soft spot for cute animals could fail to be charmed.
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About the Author

Laurie Frankel is a photographer and designer whose work has appeared in The Beauty Workbook (0-8118-2385-7) and several other publications. She lives in San Francisco.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Chronicle Books (January 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0811840557
• ISBN-13: 978-0811840552
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 7.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #310,929 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #45 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Animal Care & Pets > Mice, Hamsters & Guinea Pigs
  • #53 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Animal Care & Pets > Rabbits

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars They're SO cute!, March 20, 2004

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Donna Swan (Dallas, Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Funny Bunnies (Paperback)

To anyone who has ever tried to photograph a bunny, this book is priceless. They will not sit still. It was not the rabbit's idea, so all you will see are their butts. How the author/photgrapher she did it, I'll never know. But you cannot look at the pictures of the personality-charged bunnies without smiling, I dare you!.. You can tell that Laurie Frankel talked to "Bunny People" to get the details on each of these enigmatic creatures. If you are expecting your garden variety shy, quiet bunny, you will find out the real thing is much, much different. This book demonstrates that it may take a lifetime to get to know a bunny, and maybe never understand. It's a trip that makes this book and bunnies worth all the trouble. My mother once asked me "how can you love a bunny". This book demonstrates, "how can you NOT!"... I read it, laughed out loud at the pictures and descripions..I love it. And then I went and hugged my own non-photo-compliant rabbit models.. can you ask a book to do more than that?!

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Shots of these Loveable Animals, March 17, 2004

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Timothy Kearney (Haverhill, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Funny Bunnies (Paperback)

For people who love rabbits, FUNNY BUNNIES is the perfect gift. Photographer Laurie Frankel seems to have the ability to capture the amusing and loveable characteristics of rabbits. A wide variety of rabbits are included in the book. There are dwarf rabbits, lop eared rabbits, spotted rabbits, and even one that resembles a French poodle. As a rabbit owner and lover, as well as an amateur photographer, I envy Frankel's ability to get these shots. She must have been following the rabbits with her camera for hours. Rabbits move fast and a photographer always has to be ready.

Please note that this book is not a "how to" book on rabbit care, it's just a book that captures amusing shots of these adorable animals, and for rabbit fans, that will do just fine.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Funny Bunnies Is Fun & Entertaining, December 28, 2007

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Winslow Bunny "Winslow_Bunny" (Rockledge, Florida United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Funny Bunnies (Paperback)

The book "Funny Bunnies" is a picture-filled delight of nature's cutest animal (okay, some may not agree that they are THE cutest, but I think that they are; and the pictures are delightful, too). The main body of the book offers pictures of pets for most breeds of rabbits, some background to the breed and a little humorous biographical information or story about the pictured pet. At the beginning of the books are ears of various breeds, at the end are the tails of rabbits: i.e., front and back of bunny. The book is well-written and entertaining, and as noted, the pictures are terrific. It is an oversized, short book (slightly less than 100 pages), but it's a fun book, one that you might find yourself paging back through time and again. It's definitely worth treating yourself to this book.