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Rabbit & His Friends
See the Platypus, The most wonderful animal in the world. A friend to rabbits, Hens, Squirrels, Ducks, Beavers, and other animals and especially of little girls and boys. Admission is free to all friends of the Roly-Poly Platypus. Come one, come all.
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First published January 1, 1953
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Richard Scarry
1,298 books500 followersRICHARD SCARRY is one of the world's best-loved children's authors EVER! In his extraordinary career, Scarry illustrated over 150 books, many of which have never been out of print. His books have sold over 100 million copies around the world, and are currently published in over twenty languages. No other illustrator has shown such a lively interest in the words and concepts of early childhood. Richard Scarry was posthumously awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Illustrators in 2012.
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April 17, 2020
While this book was a great way to describe the platypus and introduce the animal to the kids, I think the story was sad in that the animals never took the platypus back to where he was found before hatching to try and reunite him with any of his own kind. I also wasn’t too keen on the fact that because he was different he was used in a circus, to be shown off for being different. Not the greatest image or ideas to pass on to the kids.
October 20, 2021
A sweet and gentle Little Golden Book story that I and multiple other generations remember from our childhoods. When Rabbit discovers a mysterious egg, and an even more mysterious little animal hatches from it, it's an adventure to find out just what the little creature is and where he belongs.
Humane families note: For the most part, the story has aged well, although I don't think in a modern book the characters would simply leave a baby character on his own at the end of the day to walk down the road and figure out where he belongs. Humane families also may find disagreeable the fact that the platypus winds up in a circus, but this is a world in which animals and humans speak to one another on equal terms, and the platypus joins on his own volition and he is the only performer other than the ringmaster we see in the show.
Humane families note: For the most part, the story has aged well, although I don't think in a modern book the characters would simply leave a baby character on his own at the end of the day to walk down the road and figure out where he belongs. Humane families also may find disagreeable the fact that the platypus winds up in a circus, but this is a world in which animals and humans speak to one another on equal terms, and the platypus joins on his own volition and he is the only performer other than the ringmaster we see in the show.
July 9, 2023
This book is the reason my favorite animal is the Platypus. I remember reading it as a young boy. Now I have a goal to touch a platypus. (Yes, I know the males are venomous).
At a young age I knew I was different. I was born with six fingers on each hand and even though I only had numbs in their place after they were cut off shortly after my birth, that one detail, along with a “lifetime” of seeing things differently than most people, helped me to be confident and comfortable with being…an outsider. Perhaps not accepted by the elite but at home with the other outsiders.
Everyone wants community after all. Even the young platypus in this story.
At a young age I knew I was different. I was born with six fingers on each hand and even though I only had numbs in their place after they were cut off shortly after my birth, that one detail, along with a “lifetime” of seeing things differently than most people, helped me to be confident and comfortable with being…an outsider. Perhaps not accepted by the elite but at home with the other outsiders.
Everyone wants community after all. Even the young platypus in this story.
November 17, 2023
My son was gifted this in the year of its reprint. It's not one I was familiar with as a child, but we enjoyed the story of rabbit who finds a strange egg. When it hatches, rabbit and his friends try to figure out what kind of animal it is.
July 22, 2017
Little Golden Book.
April 29, 2022
Platypi are the funniest creatures! And Richard Scarry artwork is always wonderful.
June 20, 2024
A little random, but I love the illustrations.
August 17, 2017
One of my hubby's childhood books read to our grand kids who also enjoyed it.
July 15, 2016
This is a cute story, written in 1979. There are many more words than you would find in a picture book today.
When the forest friends find an egg that hatches into a mystery animal, they compare him to several animals, but none of them match all of his traits.
The surprise ending is cute, but not sure it would be as acceptable today.
When the forest friends find an egg that hatches into a mystery animal, they compare him to several animals, but none of them match all of his traits.
The surprise ending is cute, but not sure it would be as acceptable today.
February 27, 2015
A Little Golden Book from my youth, re-read as an adult. Nifty story and good illustrations from Richard Scarry.
December 30, 2012
Interesting that the book is named for Rabbit when it is mostly about a little platypus.
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