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Scieszka, Jon , Barnett, Mac

Battle Bunny

32 pp. | Simon | October, 2013 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4424-4673-1 $14.99

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Matthew Myers. Gran Gran has inscribed this copy of Birthday Bunny to Alex. The mischievous boy repurposes the sappy story and pictures through the liberal application of number 2 (pencil). It's all very clever and even wise about the divide between what grownups think kids should like and what they actually do, but neither joke nor point comfortably stretch to thirty-two pages.

Reviewer: Roger Sutton | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2013