Emmaline and the Bunny
Katherine Hanningan
HarperCollins (2009)
ISBN 9780061626548
Reviewed by Katie Malone (age 11) for Reader Views (7/09)
This book is great for all ages with a very inspiring point…be yourself. Emmaline is a very untidy girl stuck in a very tidy town. All Emmaline wants is a bunny, but the pet stores bunnies are way too tidy for her. She wants a wild bunny, one that hops and digs like her. Then she hears about a very untidy town, just outside of her tidy town. She goes there and finds a bunny that she loves. To find out whether she keeps the bunny or not you just have to read the book.
The author does a very good job carrying the point of the book throughout the book. This book taught me that being someone I’m not isn’t going to get me anywhere in life. I say this because being tidy got Emmaline nowhere.
I think that when/if Katherine Hannigan were to write another book, it should be about someone learning that they should be themselves. I say this because I’ve read the book “Ida B.” by this same author which is about a girl that finds out who she is when her mother gets cancer. That’s one of my favorite books, and her writing was awesome in this book as well. Katherine Hannigan might not use the best sentences, but I still love her books.
Here’s an example of what I mean…. “so Emmaline waited and watched.” You could add so much to that. You could add when, why, where, how she “waited and watched.” It’s just such a boring sentence if you know what I mean.
Anyway, another thing I love about her books is that in the back of each book she tells you how many trees it saved, how many gallons of water, how many pounds of solid waste, how many BTU’s of energy and how many pounds of greenhouse gases that this one book saved, by being printed on recycled paper. So, this book is saving this planet that we live on!
In conclusion, no matter who you are, you should read this book; it is great and has a very inspiring point. Katherine Hannigan has never written a bad book, and probably never will. If I haven’t convinced you then remember that you’re saving the planet. Trust me, I loved “Emmaline and the Bunny” and you will too.
Reviewed by Genna Chatel (age 9) for Reader Views (5/09)
This book is about a girl named Emmaline who wants a bunny and she lives in a town that is very neat. So she goes to the wild to find a bunny that will play with her. She makes an invitation by making a safe place for the bunny to stay. All the animals come to her house and finally she sees the bunny.
My favorite part of the book is when Emmaline sees the bunny in the wild and wants to take to it home because she really wants a bunny and he is very cute.
Bunny is my favorite character because he is a very smart bunny and he knows how to do things like scoot-skedaddle and he’s very cuddly.
I love animals too and I understand how Emmaline felt when she was not neat and when she wanted a bunny friend. In one part, the story made me feel sad because the bunny gets taken away, but then he was found so I didn’t feel so sad.
I think the illustrations were watercolor paints and pencil. I loved the illustrations and every time I turned a page, I knew it was a good story. I couldn’t wait to see what happened next.
Emmaline and the Bunny is a chapter book. It was easy to read, but a tiny bit challenging. In the story there were words I didn’t know like scoot-skedaddle and dinglederrydee, but these words were funny to say.
I would recommend “Emmaline and the Bunny” by Katherine Hannigan to children who are 8, 9 or 10-years-old and who love animals. If I could, I would give this book 1000 stars!
Mom’s note: Genna is a reluctant reader and she just inhaled this book. She read it in two days! It’s the fastest I’ve ever seen her read and I didn’t have to nag her to finish it, like I normally do.
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