Bunny Play

by Loreen Leedy

When the bunnies decide to put on a musical stage version of Little Red Riding Hood, they all work hard in the various areas of acting, directing, set design, publicity, and costumes.

32 pages, Library Binding

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

Loreen Leedy is the author and illustrator of over 40 picture books with math, science, language arts, and other curriculum content. Her books showcase information in a kid-friendly format, often with characters and entertaining stories.

Honors and awards for her books include: ALA Notable Book, Science Books and Films finalist, Reading Rainbow feature book, Chicago Library Best of the Best, many Scholastic Book Fair selections, Florida Book Award, Parent's Choice Award, many Junior Library Guild selections, and Outstanding Science Trade Book by the National Science Teachers Association.

Loreen has spoken at hundreds of schools and many conferences such as the International Reading Association, the American Library Association, the Mazza Summer Conference, and the UVU Engaged Reading Forum.

She lives in central Florida with her husband Andy, who is a scientist and a cat named Knickers who has an easily triggered purrometer. They love to travel, read, and watch movies.

Reviews

[Danielle Joseph · Rating 2 out of 5]

An introduction to plays and their many components for little ones

[Jenna]

This is a cute story that in a way teaches the kids reading or hearing it how to put on a play, advertise for it, the different aspects to the play like the script, the director, actors etc. It would be good for teaching them about plays and a good activity would be to have them pick out the things they hear in the play and use them to create their own play in groups using the aspects they learn from this book.

[Peter · Rating 4 out of 5]

I agree with all of the things in Jenna's review (Feb. 21) and also wanted to add that there is a glossary that defines every theater term the author uses (from Actor to Tryout), so there should be no worries about unfamiliar words. Overall this book is on par with Leedy's other educational works and serves as a great intro to "making a play work" for early readers.