What Does the Rabbit Say?

by Jacque Hall, Reg Cartwright (Illustrator)

A merry, rhythmic rhyming text follows a boy and girl who ask what sound their pet rabbit makes. As they name many animals and their sounds--ducks quack, cows moo, chickens cluck, doves coo--the children imitate the other animals while they play with their rabbit. And though he is silent, he is still their favorite animal of all.

The short, simple rhymes, plenty of fun animal noises to join in on, and animal poses to imitate, combine to create an engagingly playful book for toddlers.

Genres: Picture Books, Animals, Rabbits, Childrens

32 pages, Hardcover

First published March 7, 2000

Reviews

[Jessica · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved these simple but classic looking illustrations. All the animals have a sound. But what about the rabbit? Kind of reminded me of Mo Willems "What's Your Sound, Hound the Hound?" only without the comedy.

[Misbah · Rating 1 out of 5]

What the heck, they don't even tell you what sound a rabbit makes!

[Abigail Bradley]

I’d like to give a special thank you to this book to getting me to reading of 60 books in 2021

[Heidi-Marie · Rating 3 out of 5]

This definitely looks like a good one for participation (animal sounds mostly). But with so many animals on a page, you could spend a bit of time trying each one and then lose focus by the end of the book. Or you could just pick one for each page and have the book go faster. (The length worries me since my toddler groups are so young.) In a lap read, it would work well to do all the animals--a great way to teach sounds. And I like the part of wondering what a rabbit says. It could work well for a preschool time, too.

5/18/10 I tried this for preschool, and it was wonderful. This group had a few on the older end. So they were very willing to make the animal noises, and all the kids joined them. And they had no problem doing each animal on all the pages. They even caught me when I forgot the birds!

5/20/10 This group was not as loud as Tuesday, but they were smaller. They still got very involved in the animal noises and had just as fun of a time.

[Ashley · Rating 4 out of 5]

I definitely feel like this author was ripped off by Ylvis (and now their subsequent picture book). This delightful picture book talks about the sounds of the animals kids know and recognize all the while maintaining the mystery of what a rabbit says. But at the end they like the rabbit for what he is and what he does, not what he says.

Cute and could be a good read aloud.

[Susan · Rating 3 out of 5]

a very nice book to read if you happen to have a puppet rabbit named Charlotte who enjoys hearing books about rabbits read to children.

[Mary · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute. Illustrations are a bit dated.

[Heather · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good practice for animal sounds :)