Blue Rabbit

A story of parting, pining and reconciliation as experienced by a toy whose boy owner goes away on holiday. Blue Rabbit searches high and low for his missing companion, helped by Old Brown Dog, Monkey, and the others, but it soon becomes clear that he is nowhere to be found. Long faces abound in the toy box until the inevitable return of sun-tanned boy to ensuing all round glee. This inversion of the usual child/toy story is sure to be popular with children, though some may find the photographically posed pointillist illustrations a little on the cloying, sentimental side. There is sometimes a problem with readability (in the pictorial sense) where single page, full bleed images seem to have been designed independently of each other, making it difficult to know whether or not we are looking at a double page spread or two singles.