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this is a wonderful idea: take a sappy book with a trite story and a heartwarming message and MAKE IT SO MUCH BETTER BY ADDING WEAPONS AND ESSPLOSIONS!!
thisis was a story about a little bunny on his birthday. he woke up soooo excited that he was going to see all his friends and they would throw him a party and he would get presents and everyone would shower him with attention and cake. but oh no! looks like everyone forgot it was his birthday because they have other things going on in their liv
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I'm not sure how I would have felt about this book when I was a straight-laced, rule-bound parent of kids still reading picture books, however, as someone who is old enough to be a grandmother, I loved this book! Jon Scieszka, one of my favorite authors, has taken a faux blah standard picture book and turned it into a work of art and empowerment. If I had grandchildren of this age, I would be running out to garage sales to find boring old picture books that they could turn into better and more m
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Ridiculously awesome. Essentially, you get two stories here -- Birthday Bunny, the sweet tale of a Bunny's special day, and the edited version, Battle Bunny, with more bunny violence and some zombie mayhem turning it into a story a little boy would actually want to read.
But (there's always a but), does it belong in the Easy section of a library? Is that the right audience? It might be better in Readers? Juvenile Graphic Novels? I don't know. It's a conversation that came up as I shared it with e ...more
But (there's always a but), does it belong in the Easy section of a library? Is that the right audience? It might be better in Readers? Juvenile Graphic Novels? I don't know. It's a conversation that came up as I shared it with e ...more
Fantastic, hilarious book. The book looks like a bunny birthday book, in which the cheerful birthday words have been crossed out and replaced with words that are more suited to battle.
I don't know man. It's clever but it's a lot of work to read the text and subtext. I'm sure a lot of kids will enjoy it but I just didn't like it as much by other books by the authors.
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Someone has edited the saccharine text of Birthday Bunny into a gleefully violent supervillain tale. Someone has edited the saccharine text of Birthday Bunny into a gleefully violent supervillain tale. Appeal to boys and reluctant readers abounds. Pair this with Once Upon A Cool Motorcycle Dude for a fun set of writing prompts, or a lesson on narrative voice. Teachers looking for a class writing exercise can find the "unedited" text of Birthday Bunny at http://mybirthdaybunny.com/ Print one off
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Jul 10, 2013
Megan
marked it as to-read
Mar 15, 2015
Kerry (The Roaming Librarian) O'Donnell
rated it
really liked it
Shelves:
childrens-lit,
easy-reader
