Everyone knows Miss Molly loves animals. One day she finds a rabbit on her doorstep. She feeds it and lets it sleep in a box. So far it is no trouble at all.
But the next day Miss Molly finds not one rabbit, but a box full. Rabbits here. Rabbits there. Rabbits hopping everywhere!
Everyone knows Miss Molly loves animals. One day she finds a rabbit on her doorstep. She feeds it and lets it sleep in a box. So far it is no trouble at all.
But the next day Miss Molly finds not one rabbit, but a box full. Rabbits here. Rabbits there. Rabbits hopping everywhere!
What is Miss Molly to do?
From the Inside Flap
Good golly Miss Molly!
Everyone knows Miss Molly loves animals. One day she finds a rabbit on her doorstep. She feeds it and lets it sleep in a box. So far it is no trouble at all.
But the next day Miss Molly finds not one rabbit, but a box full. Rabbits here. Rabbits there. Rabbits hopping everywhere!
The late Peggy Parish, well known for her stories about Amelia Bedelia, wrote many popular books for children, including Dinosaur Time, illustrated by Arnold Lobel.
"I hate reading but your books are changing my opinion." This letter, from a young Peggy Parish fan, comes as no surprise to the teachers and librarians who have put her books in the hands of children over the years. Ms. Parish wrote nearly three dozen children's books-many of which include her most famous character, the literal-minded maid named Amelia Bedelia.
Peggy Parish knew what children like to read. After graduating from the University of South Carolina with a degree in English, she taught school in Oklahoma, Kentucky, and, for over 15 years, at the well-known, progressive Dalton School in New York City. It was at Dalton that she began to find ways to release her creative ideas and energy, Though she never took a writing course, "writing stories for children came naturally." Her first book, published in 1961, was followed with Let's Be Indians and in 1963 with her unforgettable Amelia Bedelia.
Always involved with education in some way, Peggy Parish did television pieces on preschool education and children's books, wrote children's book review columns, and led numerous in-service training workshops for teachers. In discussing her ideas about education, she said, "Children's rights are taken away from them when they enter school. What I try to show teachers is that all the skills needed to read can be taught outside of textbooks. Today's children are not going to read what they are not interested in. And if a positive attitude toward reading is not developed during the first three years of school, it is virtually impossible to develop it later."
After living in New York for many years, Peggy Parish returned to her native South Carolina. She died in November, 1988. But Ameila Bedelia did not die. Peggy Parish's nephew, Herman Parish, has written Good Driving, Amelia Bedelia and Bravo, Amelia Bedelia!, published by Greenwillow Books in 1995 and 1997 respectively.
This book is a favorite! I read it to my grandchildren many years ago and wanted to give them each a copy for their children. Cute story with humor children can understand.
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I won an autographed copy of this book in 1982 at a 'Tricky Tray' in our local elementary school. When I brought it home it was a big hit with my children. Read, reread and always handled with great care because "she" had signed it. After a while my childrens taste in literature moved on and this book was put onto the book shelf awaiting a new reader. I gave this book to my second grade granddaughter this week to read and she has not dissapointed me. Too Many Rabbits is once again being read to many times and enjoyed immensly by yet another generation. We have all loved Miss Molly and her rabbits. Miss Molly has shown us caring and compassion as she learns to live with her many rabbits. She has shown us problem solving in her humane way of placing these same rabbits in another home when they have become to much for her to handle. I highly recommnend this book for other young readers.
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