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School Library Journal - 01/01/2012 PreS—When the rabbits wail that they are hungry, Papa Rabbit suggests that they head to the garden. What they find there—cabbages, peppers, tomatoes, carrots, peas, etc.—provides contents for Mama's empty pot. As each rabbit selects an item ("the second rabbit pulled up TWO WHITE onions," "the sixth rabbit yanked up SIX ORANGE carrots"), viewers will quickly discover that the colors of the vegetables match the colors of the bunnies' outfits. While some may question the eighth bunny's choice of blueberries for vegetable soup, it does fill out the color scheme—and, who knows, perhaps the bunnies enjoyed them for dessert! Lobel's vibrant colors punch up this sweet and simple tale, providing a multiple learning package for very young children.—Barbara Elleman, Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst, MA - Copyright 2012 Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and/or School Library Journal used with permission.

Booklist - 01/01/2012 In this introduction to numbers and colors—which also champions healthful eating—poor Mama Rabbit doesn’t have anything to feed her hungry brood, so Papa Rabbit sends the little ones out to find the makings for a delicious soup. The 10 young bunnies head to the garden, each gathering colored vegetables and fruits (purple cabbage, yellow peppers, blueberries) in increasing amounts, from 1 to 10. Lobel’s gouache and watercolor illustrations are chock-full of charm and detail, especially the adorable, rotund rabbits—direct descendants of Beatrix Potter’s and Clement Hurd’s classic cottontails. However, it’s the educational components that are rightly front and center here, with both numbers and colors prominently highlighted, close-ups of grouped items for counting, and simple lines of descriptive text (“The seventh rabbit spotted SEVEN BROWN mushrooms”). An early learning concept book is an obvious choice for one-on-one sharing, but the book’s appealing scenes and petite size make it a good fit for little browsers, too. - Copyright 2012 Booklist.

Bulletin for the Center... - 03/01/2012 When Mama Rabbit announces that she has nothing to put in her soup pot, her ten hungry offspring hop off to the garden in search of vegetables. Each rabbit finds something for the soup, in a pattern involving increasing numbers and various colors (“The first rabbit found ONE big PURPLE cabbage,” “The second rabbit pulled up TWO WHITE onions,” etc.). When the ten return, Mama makes soup, and they all sit down to a delicious dinner together. Save the one notable oddity in the list (blueberries may be blue, but they do not generally go in vegetable soup), this is a very nicely organized and executed concept book from noted author/illustrator Lobel. Each of the ten pages is jam-packed with usefulness, containing an ordinal number, an action word, a cardinal number, a color, and the name of a vegetable. The gouache and watercolor illustrations clearly convey the elements: each page emphasizes the concepts with a large and countable image of the gathered ingredients with the relevant numeral and number name, and each page is carefully color-coded to the target hue without being monochromatic. This will fit smoothly into the early childhood curriculum, while lapsitters will adore playing seek-and-find and count-the-vegetables on each page. HM - Copyright 2012 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.

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