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Betty Bunny Wants Everything
Betty Bunny's mother takes her and her siblings to a toy store where each is allowed to pick out one item. Betty refuses to choose just one and throws a tantrum when she learns the alternative is to get nothing. Full color.
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published
February 2nd 2012
by Dial
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I discovered this book while shopping for presents for our girls during a business trip. We'd recently read Betty Bunny Loves Chocolate Cake, so I anticipated the naughty antics of Miss Bunny. I can't help but get a little irritated with Betty's behavior, but I appreciate that Mr. Kaplan is trying to show what is appropriate and what is not.
I love that her mother stands resolute (view spoiler)...more
I love that her mother stands resolute (view spoiler)...more
When Betty Bunny is unable to choose one toy at the store and pitches a fit after her mother tells her she can't have everything she wants, she cries at home and hopes for her father's intervention. Her parents return to the store, give her money and tell her that she can do whatever she wants with it--spend it, save it, save part of it--but she can only buy what she can afford. Once again, she chooses a stuffed bunny that resembles her and fills a shopping cart with far more toys than her money...more
This is one I have mixed feelings on. I really wanted to like it. It sounded like a book we could learn something from. Betty Bunny goes to the toy store and loads everything she finds into her cart. When she refuses to pick just one item and her mom takes her from the store without purchasing anything, Betty throws an award-winning tantrum (sound familiar, anyone?) Later, Betty's dad comes up with a solution, and Betty has a chance to learn her lesson. But... she doesn't. And on the final pa...more
Betty Bunny is a BIG BRAT. Her mother needs to read a parenting book, or three. Allowing Betty Bunny to be that level of rude, selfish and ungrateful is not acceptable. Especially when no consequences are given after the offensive behavior. O but wait, how about give her some money instead of a time out or serious scolding on manners or lack there of? WRONG!
While the idea of teaching the value of a dollar is important, it is second to having a consequence for such atrocious behavior. Later the...more
While the idea of teaching the value of a dollar is important, it is second to having a consequence for such atrocious behavior. Later the...more
I'm not sure I like how the problem - Betty doesn't understand that she must only pick ONE toy or she can't have ANY toys - was handled. When Betty has to return home without any toys as she refuses to pick just one, her parents decide to use this as a lesson to teach her the value of money. They take her back to the store and she can use a set amount of money to purchase whatever she wants. She buys a little bunny, but saves some of the money. But by the end she is filling up a cart again, sayi...more
When I saw this on the shelf, I knew I needed to read it! I read "Betty Bunny Loves Chocolate Cake" before and it's one of my favorite books. So seeing another book about Betty Bunny really made my day!
Some sequels can disappoint, but this one didn't. The story follows Betty Bunny who is toy shopping with her family. When she goes all out, throwing everything possible in her cart, her mother tells her she can have just one toy. The story teaches children a great lesson about moderation, being th...more
Some sequels can disappoint, but this one didn't. The story follows Betty Bunny who is toy shopping with her family. When she goes all out, throwing everything possible in her cart, her mother tells her she can have just one toy. The story teaches children a great lesson about moderation, being th...more
Betty Bunny is cute albeit obnoxious at times. I was tracking with the story all the way up to the last page where this story went from a 4 star to a no star for me. I did not find the ending to be "cute". I found the story lost a very teachable moment. Rather than Betty learning a lesson about getting what she wants (which the story was doing a fabulous job of right up till the end) - she learns only to project her wants onto the doll and to ask her parents for more. And that's where it ends......more
I love Betty Bunny! In this story, Betty cannot understand why she can't get every toy in the store. Her mother takes her home with no toys. Betty tries to get Dad to tell mom that Betty should have every toy she wants. Instead, Betty gets some money to buy toys. When the money runs out, no more toys. It is a clever way to teach the concept of how far money will go. The ending is so perfect that I can almost hear my kindergarteners' low laugh as Betty tries another way to get what she wants. Per...more
Hmmm, not sure about Betty Bunny Wants Everything. I was following the story about Betty Bunny who wants lots of toys even though her mother told her to pick out only one. And it seemed that the ending would reveal that Betty Bunny would learn the important lesson that you cannot always get everything you want. But the last page was disappointing. Up until that point, I would have wholeheartedly recommended Betty Bunny Wants Everything. Now, I might recommend it but with some reservations.
For a book about spending money wisely, this little story gets 5 stars. In overall execution, I think the text could have skipped a few pages in the middle where she's running around filling up the cart with toys and added an end scene where she's at home happily playing with just her new bunny doll. The overt money message is fine but the underlying message is still that over-consumption is fun. But the illustrations were interesting and quirky with-out being too messy.
It was cute, but Bunny doesn't end up seeming to understand the point of the book, which was that things cost money and therefore, little bunnies can't have everything they want (in addition to the idea of not being greedy, etc.). She doesn't learn (just how to be more manipulative), so the character doesn't grow, so the book hasn't much point except it's pretty pictures.
This is a story about how Betty Bunny can't have everything she wants (namely, a gajillion toys). Except that, in the end, she still doesn't understand that she can't have everything she wants--she's just become more devious about trying to con her parents into buying her everything. Lovely story to read to your materialistic young child. *eyeroll*
This book was so promising - until the last page. I would have liked it MUCH better if the character grew from her experience instead of continuing her greedy stance. Maybe I am reading too much into it, but if the author was trying to be funny the attempt fell flat. I like Helen Lester's Pookins Gets Her Way much better.
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Betty Bunny wants to buy everything when her mom takes her and her siblings to the store to buy one toy each. Betty Bunny cannot seem to grasp the concept that she is only allowed to buy one toy. She wants to buy all the toys. No matter how many times her mother tries to explain it to her she just cannot accept it. Her father tries too and finally she chooses one toy but then she decides that her toy needs all the toys now. So she still tries to find a way to get all of the toys that she wants....more
Great topic of interest for the kid who has a case of the "I Wants" a.k.a "the gimmes". The only thing that bugged me was the way the book ended...I doubt the intended audience will be able to grasp the message with an ironic ending like that.
This was a very cute book, and Betty is certainly someone little kids of all persuasions will relate to. But the lesson was a lot more obvious than I like to see in a picture book. The illustrations are wonderful, and it's worth a read.
I still enjoy the quirky illustrations, just look at the store Clark's face when Betty Bunny comes back to the store! Sibling dynamics are very realistic and message rings true, but I wouldn't take bratty bunny back to the store.
The Betty bunny books are really engaging. The morals presented in this story about the value of money and not getting everything you always want translate well with young readers.
Had I read this one through before opening it to read with my kids, I don't think I would have read it to them. Betty Bunny exhibits awful behavior and remains selfish to the end.
Betty Bunny wants everything and throws a screaming fit when she doesnt get her way. She has three siblings that try to help her understand, my favorite being her teenage brother Bill.
Apr 12, 2012
Marcie
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommended to Marcie by:
Silver Creek Library New Books
Shelves:
too-didactic
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Betty Bunny has a hilarious take on many childhood issues. Definitely for the preschool/kindergarten crowd (or their adult readers).
I want everything too, but Betty Bunny has to learn a lesson that you can't have everything you want in the toy store. Cute Story!
Choice quote: "Betty Bunny looked at her new money. She liked it very much."
Um, gross. Keep this book away from your children.
Um, gross. Keep this book away from your children.
Betty Bunny is a brat. I don't think I would have let her go back to that toy store a second time.
A silly story with a good message, and a solution for some parents who have a bunny who wants everything.
Clever and fun 2nd book about Betty Bunny - I read it to my niece. We had a great time reading it together.
I love Betty Bunny! What a "handful" she is...great read-a-louds for elementary aged children!
I thought it was good up until the end when Betty Bunny doesn't end up actually learning anything
Useful for a Money Smart Week program with little ones, or maybe not-so-little ones.
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