Battle Bunny

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The original text is supposed to be an authentic-feeling 1950s style story of a Bunny visiting all of his forest friends. In Alix’s new story, this malevolent force goes (c)hopping through the forest, fighting every animal he meets, wielding or encountering megatron bombs, a chain saw, and robot killer bees (“to sting your butt”); and wreaking havoc on the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty. Try your luck to gacha as many Bunny as possible and let them be your pets and join your army to battle for you. Overall, “Battle Bunny (Birthday Bunny)” is a truly creative story for both children and adults to read as it is full of comedy and action that will last for years! Today is a special day for Bunny as he realizes that today is his birthday and spends most of the story going to his friends Crow, Badger, Squirrel, Turtle and Bear and telling them that today is a special day indeed!

One final note: please, Jon Scieszka and Mac Barnett…please, please create at least one of the other "books from our Attacking Bunny Collection" described on the back cover. Then an advanced copy of the book showed up in the mail and I took it to school to see what my students thought. the Time Warp Trio series, Caldecott Honor Book The Stinky Cheese Man , and many other books that inspire kids to want to read. Next we explored the scribbles --- evidently someone named Alex had received the book from his grandmother for his birthday (there is an inscription on the inside front cover), wasn't too happy, and decided to make it into a completely new story.

Apparently the story of "Birthday Bunny" was not dangerous enough for Alex so he made some alterations. and will likely be reminded of their own classic storybooks… not to mention the changes they wish they'd made (or perhaps did make) themselves, given the chance. For example, don't miss the title page where you read the sweet sentiment from Alex's grandmother, obviously a grandmother out of touch with her grandson's preferences, or the first page of the story, seemingly unedited, until you look at the illustration and you notice the picture on the wall of a mother bunny leaning over the bed of two rabbits with the words "Drink your poison" written above. B White Read-Aloud Award, and Extra Yarn, which won both the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award and the E.

I did find myself wishing I could see the original "Birthday Bunny” pages first, but them’s the breaks, kid. Also worth noting - I showed the book trailer to my class and they ask me about 15 times a day if I have bought the book yet! You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.Alex’s gleeful disregard for the inanity of Birthday Bunny belies a deep engagement with the words in the book, an active participation with the structures of literacy that acts as a rebellious model for kids just starting to read on their own. Parents will enjoy the sly, cantankerous humor (was that actually a Waiting for Godot reference I just read? The old world shattering hit the regular citizens hard by the looks of it, and it's taken up to know for them to build up their military industry and organize their ranks. Alex even goes so far as to apply his editorial skills to the book's copyright page, with some highly amusing results.

Alex receives the gift of the perfectly lovely Birthday Bunny and proceeds to scribble throughout to create a completely different story – Battle Bunny. The authors and illustrator should also be praised for producing such a well-made book – it really does feel like a classic Ladybird style story that has been written on. After all, how far a step is it from the child who updates preexisting narratives to the child to makes up stories of their own.

Both a fun story that most young children will enjoy for its irreverence, and also a sly critique on contemporary literacy. I loved the way that both Jon Scieszka and Mac Barnett wrote this story as you have the story about Birthday Bunny being the actual story going on here while the story about Battle Bunny is the one that is being written over the “Birthday Bunny” story (with childlike drawings and multiple crossing out of words being shown in loving detail). I want to make a massive gunline with flintlock rifles who were farmers or blacksmiths a few weeks before, truly the bravest of us.

I really like the Hammerhal Aqsha for the vibrant red of their shields or Greywater Fastness for the Black and yellow-orange scheme. Equally enjoyable is the idea of celebrating the breaking of the rule of writing/rubbing out/destroying of books. I can totally imagine a young boy doing this to one of his old books that he considers babyish, and my only concern is that a child might be inspired to do this to a library book (oh, the horror! Pity the occasional child who will be interrogated by a clerk about how this book came to be so horribly defaced. For a book that breaks the third wall a little better than Battle Bunny, try Circle, Square, Moose by Kelly L Bingham and Paul O Zelinsky.If you look at the cover above you can perhaps see that it appears to be a sweet book of the Golden Book sort, originally titled Birthday Bunny, that has been erased, scribbled on, and reworked by. Alex has vastly improved what once was a limp tale about a bunny that thinks everyone has forgotten his very special day. So in this way, Battle Bunny is a wonderful book to use to talk to students about reading strategies. Gone is the tale of a rabbit trying to work out if any of his animal friends have remembered his birthday and instead we get an epic battle of bunny versus the animal kingdom.