The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Russo, Marisabina

A Very Big Bunny

40 pp. | Random/Schwartz & Wade | January, 2010 | Trade ISBN 978-0-375-84463-8 $17.99 | Library ISBN 978-0-375-94463-5 $20.99

(2) K-3 Amelia towers over her fellow bunnies at school and is excluded from their games. Tiny Susannah, who's also shunned, comes up with a plan to outshine the mean-girl bunnies, and Amelia and Susannah become friends. Russo gets at the heart of the ordinary child experience. The gouache paintings show bunny ears effectively expressing a range of emotions.

Reviewer: Susan Dove Lempke | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2010