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  • Two Bunny Buddies by Kathryn O. Galbraith
  • Thaddeus Andracki
Galbraith, Kathryn O. Two Bunny Buddies; illus. by Joe Cepeda. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. 32p. ISBN 978-0-544-17652-2 $16.99 Reviewed from galleys R 3-6 yrs.

Two bunny buddies, one white and one brown, set off together with their backpacks on a long and winding road, but a spat at a fork in the road results in name-calling (“Stinky feet!”) and the bunnies’ going their separate ways. Each rabbit comes across a delicious treat down the path they have taken—one friend finds ripe berries, the other succulent clover—but with no one to share it with, they separately become downcast … until they pick their snack and hop back together again. Retro pastels—orchid, lavender, and mint—provide a backdrop for thick and sharp outlines tempered with the feathering of gouache, creating simple illustrations that place the focus squarely on the bunnies and their interactions. The text is similarly minimal, using sparse sentences (“Jump, jump this way!”) to move the story along. Though the words aren’t always the most friendly for sounding out, the repeated, limited vocabulary would suggest that this has potential for emerging readers with a bit of guidance; young ones would also hop right to a spring storytime that pairs this with something like Nyeu’s Bunny Days (BCCB 2/10). [End Page 453]

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