I don't know if one can review this book. It's Pat The Bunny. You get to pat the bunny. How cool is that? All the activities in the book are things kiI don't know if one can review this book. It's Pat The Bunny. You get to pat the bunny. How cool is that? All the activities in the book are things kids do -- except patting the bunny. Is that a normal childhood activity, patting bunnies? I don't remember patting that many bunnies. Well, we did own Marshmallow (or Thumbalina, depending on which kid you asked -- there'd been a disagreement over who had the right to name the rabbit), but we didn't pat it all that often. Bunnies aren't that friendly. And if you look at it for a while, the bunny in Pat the Bunny is sort of freaky looking. And why is the entire book called "Pat the Bunny" when the bunny gets one page? Why isn't it called "Touch Dad's Scratchy Face?" Okay, that book wouldn't be a kid's classic sixty years later. Especially because that page looks like "Touch Dad's Scratchy Birthmark." but tactile books are always great when you're super tiny, and this is the classic.
Fun note -- my partner logged onto Amazon the other day, and thanks to her wildly divergent wish-list, was recommended "Pat the Bunny" and "Pedagogy of the Oppressed." I think there's a message in there somewhere, something with neo-colonial attitude towards animals, but I'll leave that for another time. . .
Merged review:
I don't know if one can review this book. It's Pat The Bunny. You get to pat the bunny. How cool is that? All the activities in the book are things kids do -- except patting the bunny. Is that a normal childhood activity, patting bunnies? I don't remember patting that many bunnies. Well, we did own Marshmallow (or Thumbalina, depending on which kid you asked -- there'd been a disagreement over who had the right to name the rabbit), but we didn't pat it all that often. Bunnies aren't that friendly. And if you look at it for a while, the bunny in Pat the Bunny is sort of freaky looking. And why is the entire book called "Pat the Bunny" when the bunny gets one page? Why isn't it called "Touch Dad's Scratchy Face?" Okay, that book wouldn't be a kid's classic sixty years later. Especially because that page looks like "Touch Dad's Scratchy Birthmark." but tactile books are always great when you're super tiny, and this is the classic.
Fun note -- my partner logged onto Amazon the other day, and thanks to her wildly divergent wish-list, was recommended "Pat the Bunny" and "Pedagogy of the Oppressed." I think there's a message in there somewhere, something with neo-colonial attitude towards animals, but I'll leave that for another time. . ....more
DISCLOSURE: I wrote this review BEFORE my publishing company, Skullgate Media, decided to re-issue it. Currently we do, but the review as written befoDISCLOSURE: I wrote this review BEFORE my publishing company, Skullgate Media, decided to re-issue it. Currently we do, but the review as written before we had a vested interest in its success.
The bottom line is I LOVED this book. I'm pretty stingy with my five-stars, but this one earned every one (and not just because the book is filled with actual celestial bodies). It's not often that I have no idea where a story is headed and yet still find myself compelled to keep reading, but somehow the first half of this book did just that. Part 1 is relatively light on "plot," but the characters and their interactions are so wonderful and well written that I was happy to just bask in their relationships. And then the half-way point hits you, and the second half barrels towards a conclusion that manages to be both startling but inevitable--all the random bits and bobs that seemed like random fun come together in a manner that's both startling and moving. I don't want to say too much about it, as the less you know going in the better, but there's magical realism, professional wrestling, D&D, heists, mad-cap adventures, and friendships that you won't soon forget....more
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