Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Home for a Bunny (1956)

 Home for a Bunny  by Margaret Wise Brown is a nostalgic Little Golden Book. The Little Golden Books of my youth are so sweet and sunny. The illustrations by Garth Williams are realistic yet soft, as if processed through the same optimistic lens as the text. This story has a familiar theme, an animal discovers the homes of other animals before finally finding one of its own. The text is as repetitive as one would expect in a book for a very young child. Robins live in a nest, frog lives in a bog, groundhog lives in a log. Finally, bunny meets another bunny, and they settle into a home underground. 

*The Night Gardener (2016)

* The Night Gardener by The Fan Brothers (2016) is a story of hope and good will. There’s not much text, but it doesn’t need much. When you...