The Horn Book Guide

LITERATURE

Fisher, Aileen

Do Rabbits Have Christmas?

32 pp. | Holt | October, 2007 | Trade ISBN 978-0-8050-7491-8 $16.95

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Sarah Fox-Davies. The poems in this posthumous collection evocatively delineate a pastoral, nostalgic conception of a peaceful winter with Christmas its centerpiece. The child-appealing focus on ordinary wonders like frost and footprints in the snow is matched by regular meters and rhyme schemes. Fox-Davies's soft-edged pencil and watercolor illustrations depict snowscapes populated by bundled-up children, along with occasional firelit indoor or muted nighttime scenes.

Reviewer: Claire E. Gross | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2007