29. Bouncing Bunnies!

 

29. Bouncing Bunnies! Fiz Osborne. Illustrated by Tim Budgen. 2025. 32 pages. [Source: Library] [3 stars, picture book]

First sentence: In a little woodland glade filled
with flowers, birds, and trees,
near a brightly colored meadow
with some very busy bees,
is a tiny little burrow--
can you see it on the ground?
And in that burrow there are...
bouncing bunnies--
all around.

My thoughts (preview): WHEN WILL IT BE SPRING?

Premise/plot: Bunnies, bunnies everywhere. Not much of a plot except BUNNIES.

My thoughts: Was the author paid by the word count???? Maybe. Maybe not. This one was just MEH. It's not that it's offensively, obnoxiously bad. It's not. It's really not. It's absolutely not. The story is perfectly fine. And it has the potential to be someone's favorite book. I don't know who that someone is. But someone, somewhere. This book will be THE BOOK. Perhaps it will be their special book because it was read aloud by someone super special and caring. I do think picture books are super subjective. I thought it was a little too wordy for the story it tells. (Note: I wouldn't want to diagram these sentences!)

 

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