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A review by pwbalto
Piggy Bunny by Rachel Vail
3.0
A pig who insists that he is a bunny. His family assures him they love him just the way he is; his sister tells him to get over it. He is still insistent: "Hello, my name is Liam and I'll be your Easter Bunny." The neighbors are skeptical but his parents continue to love and support him.
Love it.
Then grandma and grandpa come to visit, and not only do they support Liam, they work with him to make his outside match his inside - they order an Easter Bunny suit on the Internet. And once his bunny suit has arrived, "Everyone believed in him."
And I say, "HM."
I know kids who insist that they are actually kitties. For them, ok. Order a cat suit off the Internet and call him Whiskers - he'll grow out of it. And I know kids who persistently identify with the opposite gender. Most kids grow out of this, too, although some don't. For those kids however, ordering a princess dress and addressing them as Shirley may not be the best course of action. Or maybe it is. I don't know, it's not my area of expertise. My point is, you'd really want to talk to a professional before doing that.
I know, I know... "it's only a children's book." But it treads pretty close to a major issue that some kids face, and I'd hate to think of a frustrated little girl concluding that a pair of overalls is going to fix all the opposition s/he faces.
Rachel Vail and Jeremy Tankard have been separately responsible for any number of funny, sly, appealing picture books. This one is rather a miss for me.
Love it.
Then grandma and grandpa come to visit, and not only do they support Liam, they work with him to make his outside match his inside - they order an Easter Bunny suit on the Internet. And once his bunny suit has arrived, "Everyone believed in him."
And I say, "HM."
I know kids who insist that they are actually kitties. For them, ok. Order a cat suit off the Internet and call him Whiskers - he'll grow out of it. And I know kids who persistently identify with the opposite gender. Most kids grow out of this, too, although some don't. For those kids however, ordering a princess dress and addressing them as Shirley may not be the best course of action. Or maybe it is. I don't know, it's not my area of expertise. My point is, you'd really want to talk to a professional before doing that.
I know, I know... "it's only a children's book." But it treads pretty close to a major issue that some kids face, and I'd hate to think of a frustrated little girl concluding that a pair of overalls is going to fix all the opposition s/he faces.
Rachel Vail and Jeremy Tankard have been separately responsible for any number of funny, sly, appealing picture books. This one is rather a miss for me.