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Battle Bunny

Battle Bunny - Jon Scieszka, Mac Barnett, Matthew Myers

I usually talk more about the art or the text with picture books, but with this one, there's a unity that cannot be divided. Brilliant. Natasha and I both oohed and aahed over it, pointing out every little detail we discovered. This is meant to be a treacly sweet birthday gift to a boy, which he has then disfigured with text and illustration additions/substitutions to create something more to his liking. It is perfect. Every aspect of the design serves to reinforce the illusion. It looks astoundingly like some of the books saved from my childhood, but the modern gloss provided by "Alex" seems like the work of a particularly amusing and bored child of the twenty-first century.

 

I want to give it more stars. And grenades, too.

 

Library copy