Little Bunny Bobkin

The drab title apart, this tale of a bunny lost in the foxes' den has some attractive features. Foremost among them is the quality and texture of Warnes's illustrations: the chirpy looks on the animals' faces, the warmly cast country landscapes. Little Bunny Bobkin wants to learn to count and his travels through the meadows give him all kinds of opportunities. Amusingly, he mistakes the fox cubs' eyes and noses for those of the bunnies, and is soon destined for their cooking pot. His taste for numbers however sees him effect a wonderful getaway. The demands of the current Literacy Hour and the beckoning Numeracy Hour are conveniently met in this text, though I continue to find it frustrating and surprising that many picture books like this one do not include page numbers to assist their beginning readers.