The babies and bunnies book

In a companion volume to their popular Babies and Doggies Book (2015), Schindel and Woodward introduce certain similarities between babies and bunnies. Each double-page spread features two appealing close-up photos, showing a baby or toddler on the left, and on the right, a bunny doing something similar. Most of the rhyming couplets extend over two spreads, with lines such as, "They play hide / and seek. / They sing and / they squeak!" The text reads aloud well, but the photos illustrations are the star attraction here. This engaging board book is riveting for young viewers and beguiling for adult readers.

Babies and bunnies have more in common than you might think. From munching and crunching to spending time outdoors, "lots of things babies do, / bunnies do too." With rhyming text and bright, crisp photographs of sweet little ones, this board book will delight readers. Each spread features a baby on the verso with a bunny on the recto doing almost the exact same thing--it's a tight competition for which of the two is more endearing. The children in the images have different skin tones, hair colors, and textures and are presented in various poses and postures. The book is absolutely adorable, but it also encourages comparison practice for little readers. They can observe the ways in which the two images are similar--in one, both subjects are sticking out their tongues--and the ways they are different (the rabbit's eyes are clearly in a different position than the child's, and of course the animal is much furrier). Little readers will giggle at the picture of the bunny who is squeaking, mouth wide open, on the same spread as a singing child. And they'll swoon over the soft, fluffy animal basking in the sun. (This book was reviewed digitally.) Cuteness abounds all around. (Board book. 0-2) Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.