Having made a plan to spend the winter with Bear napping in a cozy cave, Rabbit finds himself too energetic to sleep and decides to join the world outside.
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From Publishers Weekly
PW's starred review praised this wintertime tale for its "sophisticated language" and "lavishly detailed, full-spread watercolors [that] bristle with energy." Ages 6-10.
- bristle with energy." Ages 6-10.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- bristle with energy." Ages 6-10.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Ages 5-9. With a rhyme that's pleasant to the ear, if not always clearly understandable to young listeners, Willard introduces a bear who invites a bunny to share his lair during the long, snowy winter. The rabbit agrees, but as soon as the bear falls asleep, the rabbit has second thoughts: "Some go in green, some go in white. / The snow's footfall is very light. / It is not wise for us, dear bear, / when snow combs silver from her hair / and stars are shears and hills are sheep, / it will not do to fall asleep. / How inconvenient to play dead!" Like lightning, the rabbit is out the door of the cave, back into the sunlight. Pinkney's impressive two-page spreads fill the pages with stars, snow, leaves, trees, and, of course, the two unlikely roommates. Graceful in both picture and word, this creates a mood that transcends the intricacies of the text. Ilene Cooper
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This review is from: A Starlit Somersault Downhill (Library Binding)
If adults are allowed to dream, to appreciate art and nature and to muse about poetry not quite understood, why not a book for children that allows them the same. Leave regimented rhyme to the institutional school books. This book makes a child think and appreciate.
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Watership Drowned,
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This review is from: A Starlit Somersault Downhill (Library Binding)
A curiously uneven pairing of Jerry Pinkney's dark, textured illustrations with Nancy Willard's inaccessible poetry. Marketed as a book for children ages 4 - 8, Willard's words are too erudite for her audience, Pinkney's drawings too lacking in qualities apt to enrapture their targeted age group.Presumably an attempt to marry what was best in both contributors to this sleeper of a book (Pinkney is a two-time Caldecott Honor recipient, Willard a Newberry Medalist), the final product falls flat. Not recommended unless you are trying to put your children into a sleep characterized by dull, unimaginative dreams.
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