A Cake for Rabbit

by Judith Koppens, Eline van Lindenhuizen (Illustrator)

"Van Lindenhuizen's winning critters on spare backgrounds pose with gentle friendliness." - School Library Journal Welcome to Animal Square where all the animals live and play together. Kitty, Mouse, Monkey, Giraffe, Rabbit, and Dog are six very best friends. They each live in their own little home and do lots of things together. Animal Square is a place full of friendship, happiness, and caring. Come join in the fun! Rabbit is hungry. She goes looking for her friends at the animal square, surely they must have something sweet for her. Dog is eating a yummy apple, but he’d rather not share it with Rabbit. Mouse and Monkey also want to eat all alone. Will nobody share their foods and drinks with Rabbit? A cheerful story about sharing. For toddlers ages 30 months and up, with a focus on the child’s social skills. At Clavis, our focus is on what’s best for children. We believe that books play an important role in each new phase in life. Our toddler books are tailored for every stage from 0 to 3 and focus on the five most important themes in their daily life, skills, emotions, the world, and language development. The age range and theme of every book in our toddler series can be found on the back cover in the form of a colored train.

32 pages, Hardcover

First published March 10, 2015

Reviews

[Pam · Rating 3 out of 5]

A lesson in sharing. None of her friends will share their food with Rabbit. Then they feel bad and make her a carrot cake. She does share with them. Readers will enjoy returning to Animal Square to see these characters interact. A starting point for discussion on sharing for toddlers and preschoolers.

[Jared White · Rating 3 out of 5]

A cute book about not sharing but then making it up to the person you did not share with in order to say sorry. This book is fairly simple but I think displays an important message, that sometimes we may be selfish towards our friends but we can apologize and make things right. Also important, the friend we were selfish to can forgive us.