Pookie [Hardcover]

Ivy Wallace (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up | Series: Pookie

Pookie, the little white rabbit with wings, first published in 1945 is a classic, endearing character and HarperCollins is delighted to be bringing him to their list. In this first adventure Pookie is sad because he has two flimsy little wings which make him different from all the other rabbits. He decides to set out to find his fortune but he has many cold, lonely days ahead of him before he eventually finds the love that he has always been looking for. AGE 4-7 as well as adults who remember Pookie from their own childhoods.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Available for the first time on this side of the Atlantic, Wallace's series (first published in England in the 1940s) stars a charming winged rabbit. Everyone teases Pookie about his "flimsy, filmy wings" they don't even allow him to fly. So he decides to leave home to seek his fortune and travels through a fairy world peopled with kindly elves, intimidating goblins and helpful frogs. None of them can tell Pookie what his fortune is, though. At last he lands in despair on a snowy doorstep, where the love of a woodcutter's daughter transforms him. Wallace's prose has a pleasingly nostalgic quality (e.g., "This is the story of Pookie, a little white rabbit with soft floppity ears, big blue eyes and the most lovable smile in the world") and the radiant watercolor illustrations never go out of style. The detailed domestic scene of Pookie's warren and the parallel world full of pixies, toadstools, hedgehogs and foxgloves, will gratify most children. Ages 5-9.

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Review

“Wallace’s prose has a pleasingly nostalgic quality, and the radiant watercolor illustrations never go out of style.” -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 5 and up
  
• Hardcover: 32 pages
• Publisher: Collins (March 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0001983776
• ISBN-13: 978-0001983779
• Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 8.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,385,299 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars wonderful fairy tail, June 11, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Pookie (Hardcover)

This is a wounderful fairy tail filled with imagination. As a small child I would study the pictures finding little details I didn't notice at first. The copy I have now was my mothers as a child, it was very worn when it was given to me - the sign of a good book. I'm now going to buy new copies to read to my children and pass the story along to them. It is a fairy tail- with fairies, no witches nothing that I remembered being scary, unlike some stories I've tried reading to my two year old. It is heartwarming, simple to read and understand. Fun to look at the pictures(in my old book, I hope to new one is the same).
In all a great story.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!, August 25, 2009

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This review is from: Pookie (Hardcover)

My daughter checked this book out from the library and loved it, but it is out of print and hard to find. Found a great price through Amazon. Surprised my daughter with the book. She still loves it and reads it often.

5.0 out of 5 stars Pookie Has Returned, October 27, 2003

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Barbara Kallaur (Indianapolis IN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pookie (Hardcover)

A Children' Lit. class at the University of British Columbia selected "Pookie" as our all time favorite pre-school book as remembered from childhood. Pookie, a little white rabbit with bothersome wings sets out to seek his fortune, not knowing what a fortune is or where to find one. He has adventures and finally as he is bemoaning his fate, lands on the doorstep of Belinda who loves him and his wings.
The prose and vocabulary are challenging (I only remember this as being read to me, not reading it myself) and it conveys a lovely message about our differences from others being blessings, and the power of unconditional love. I love this book!