The Bunny Rabbit Show! /

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In this board book by Sandra Boynton, celebrate with a cast of high-kicking bunnies that perform in perfect unison to a lively song and dance all about, well, themselves!

They're very good at hopping, and not so good at stopping! You've got front-row seats to the cutest revue in town--hop on down to The Bunny Rabbit Show ! Bunnies are very welcoming, so everyone (Boynton's pigs, sheep, chickens, and YOU) can come join the chorus line--bunny ears mandatory, of course.

We are ten terrific rabbits
and we like to dance and sing.
Ten terrific rabbits.
We can do most anything.

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Publishers Weekly Review

Ten of Boynton's characteristically excitable rabbits put on a Broadway-style song and dance for readers in a board book that bounces along like its stars. Ten cottontails sing, dance, hop, and even form a giant pyramid for a packed auditorium of chickens-and the occasional pig, sheep, and cow (it wouldn't be a Boynton book without 'em). The rabbits' song is mostly about their skills, but they aren't afraid to share their failings: "We're very good at hopping./ We're hopping in a row./ We're not so good at stopping./ It's The Bunny Rabbit Show!" A downloadable version of the song is available for families who want to join in fully. Up to age 4. (Sept.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Kirkus Book Review

The bunnies that inhabit Boynton's colorful world put on a musical show for the other animals.The rabbits have taken over the theater. They dance and sing, bragging about their long ears and twitchy noses for the pigs and chickens in the audience. The rhythmic chorus"We are ten terrific rabbits and we like to dance and sing. / Ten terrific rabbits. We can do almost anything"is mighty infectious. The author's trademark wit and humor are on full display as the other animals dress up like bunnies and join the massive grand finale. The barnyard cast forms a musical troupe that amuses and delights. Adults will appreciate the clever sight gags, and small children will appreciate the tasteful boasting and empowering jingle. While it's not as complete a vehicle for inculcating emergent language skills as many of Boynton's other books, there's no denying it's got verve.A swell read for the lighthearted. (Board book. 1-3) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Sandra Boynton was born in Orange, New Jersey, and grew up in the Mount Airy section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Boynton's parents became Quakers when she was two years old. From kindergarten through 12th grade, she and her sisters attended Germantown Friends School, where their father taught English and was Head of the Upper School. She went on to Yale, entering in 1970 for her second year of college. She spent the second semester of her junior year studying in Paris through Wesleyan University's program. At Yale, she majored in English. Boynton intended to become a theater director. For graduate studies in drama, she attended the University of California at Berkeley for one year, then transferred to the Yale School of Drama D.F.A. program, but she did not complete the program. With the birth of her first child in 1979, Boynton postponed indefinitely a career in the theater. Boynton began designing greeting cards for Recycled Paper Greetings. Her designs were at the forefront of the Alternative Cards commercial movement that began in the mid-1970s. According to RPG co-founder and president Mike Keiser, over 200 million copies of Boynton's distinctive humorous cards featuring an assortment of unnamed cartoon animal characters, spare layout, and droll messages sold between 1973 and 1995. Since the 1977 release of Hippos Go Berserk!, Boynton has published many children's books, as well as several illustrated humor books for the general market. Her books are most typically for very young children, offered in the laminated paperboard format known as board books. Five of her books have been New York Times best sellers: Chocolate: The Consuming Passion; Frog Trouble and Eleven Other Pretty Serious Songs; Yay, You!; Consider Love; and Philadelphia Chickens, which reached the number one position on the list, and was on the list for nearly a year. Two of her books are Publisher's Weekly bestsellers, Dinosaur Dance!, and Eek! Halloween!. Three of Boynton's books are on the Publishers Weekly All-Time Bestselling Children's Books list. More than 30 million copies of her books have been sold.

(Bowker Author Biography)