In Rabbit Hill, details were revealed in such a way that the reader had a clear motivation to keep reading: to find out what sort of people the Folks would turn out to be. Though its text and illustrations are quite good, The Tough Winter is just not as distinctive as Rabbit Hill. When some of the animals are forced to leave the Hill in search of food, Uncle Analdas decides he's had enough, and he sets out to find the Folks and bring them home again. The Caretaker doesn't put out any garbage worth eating, and once the snow begins to fall, food becomes more and more scarce. The Folks have gone to the Bluegrass country to weather the colder months, and they have left a Caretaker and his mean dog to look after their property.

And besides, I think you will fall in love with Little Georgie.In this sequel to Rabbit Hill, gloomy rabbit Uncle Analdas and all the other animals on the Hill are dreading a tough winter. Here is a cheerful, warm-hearted story packed with natural beauty, a bit of danger and suspense, and a daring message: “There is enough for all.” It does not talk down to you or sacrifice truth for cuteness, as some tales of adorable little bunnies are perceived as doing. Then comes the big test, the test of whether little animals and big folks can get along with each other. The little animals have nothing to complain about…until one of Little Georgie’s adventures gets him in big trouble. But the new Man and Lady who come to live in the house have ideas of their own–strange ideas, maybe ideas that come from reading so much that the brain goes soft!

Use dogs, guns, traps, and poison to drive them away. The hired men who do the work of preparing the garden and grounds have certain ideas about how to get alone with these little creatures. For new folks are coming to the abandoned house, coming to revive the decaying garden and lawns, coming to provide food for the rabbits, field mice, woodchuck, skunk, fox, deer, and other denizens of the field and wood. And all in the spring and summer in which he proves to be a nearly-full-grown rabbit, he is the most excited of all the little animals on Rabbit Hill.

Little Georgie is the youngest child of Mother and Father Rabbit, the last one still living in the hutch. And in my opinion, it should be a children’s classic. Popper’s Penguins won a Newbery Medal in 1945 for both writing and illustrating this story. Purchase hereThe author of Ben and Me and illustrator of Mr.

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