![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The illustrations are fun when the two houses get taller and start coming apart. I also liked the secondary message of taking (using, building) only what you need.It reads and looks like an old folk tale where there is a moral at the end. The lesson learned is very clear: that it is better to be friends and not compete. Nothing especially scary, surprising, or unusual about the story, but it's very useful for the preK, K-2nd graders as they get caught up in competition a lot. ![]() Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity (Knuffle Bunny, 2) by. Plus, the animal partnership of an owl and rabbit is always nice, for me at least (not a bunny for obvious reasons, heh heh). House Rabbit Handbook : How to Live With an Urban Rabbit by. Review 2: Nice big book, with pictures large enough to see by the whole class in a shared r. Read a sample Read a sample Description Details Reviews Good friends learn a small but important lesson Owl and Rabbit are good friends and live in two small houses next to each other. But somehow in this picture book which emphasized the rivalry and selfishness of the two characters, I could not set aside the fact that neither animal would build either of those houses anyway.fwiw. I can usually cast all kinds of assumptions aside when reading folktales or modern children's stories like the Berenstain Bears where the Bear family lives in a treehouse but otherwise does all the things human families do. I am not sure why, but because of that it didn't ring true. Review 1: I enjoyed the telling and the essence of the story, but despite the fact that it was a fable, somehow it bothered me that the rabbit's house was not underground and the owl's was not in a tree. ![]()
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