Bunny Books for Kids
Bunnies get into gardens, get chased, get tucked into bed, and somehow stay soft the whole time. Some of these are gentle enough for the last book of the night, others send a rabbit running from talking vegetables, so pick your energy level before you open one.
I Am a Bunny by Ole Risom just drifts through the seasons, picking flowers, blowing dandelions, curling up when it snows. Nothing to solve, nowhere to rush.
When spring arrives, a little bunny sets out across the countryside searching for a home of his own, asking a groundhog, a robin, and a frog along the way.
A little bunny imagines running away — as a fish, a rock, a bird — and each time, his mother imagines exactly how she'll follow and find him.
Old Mother Rabbit has twenty-six babies, one for every letter from Abel to Zed, and she tucks them into bed one by one through her rambling house and garden.
A country cottontail raising twenty-one children dreams of becoming an Easter Bunny, and when the wise Grandfather Bunny notices how capably she runs her big household, he chooses her for the job.
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter lets a kid feel real danger in Mr. McGregor's garden, then get home safe under the fir-tree roots.
A hungry family of rabbit siblings raids Mr McGregor's rubbish heap for old lettuces, but the drowsy nap that follows their feast leaves them in terrible danger.
Creepy Carrots! by Aaron Reynolds turns a rabbit's favorite snack into something following him around, and somehow that's funnier than it sounds.
Reach for Bunny Cakes by Rosemary Wells when your kid's mid-argument with a sibling over who gets to help in the kitchen.
A pampered tabby cat named Oliver is used to being the only pet in the house — until a baby rabbit named Marshmallow moves in and slowly, charmingly, wins him over.
Three dust bunnies named Ed, Ned, and Ted love rhyming games — bug, rug, mug, hug — but a fourth named Bob keeps breaking the pattern, trying to warn them about a broom-wielding danger heading their way.
A little white rabbit hops through a spring meadow wondering what it would feel like to be as tall as a tree, as still as a rock, or as green as the grass around him.
A gardener finally grows the vegetable patch of his dreams, but three hungry bunnies keep sneaking in every night — so he builds fence after fence to outsmart them.
Zomo has to outsmart three impossible tasks just to earn wisdom from Sky God, and Zomo the Rabbit: A Trickster Tale from West Africa by Gerald McDermott rewards cleverness over brute strength.
A pop-up ending and a fake carrot recipe book hide inside The Rabbit Problem by Emily Gravett, which somehow also teaches the Fibonacci sequence without anyone noticing.
