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As much as I wish I could say something nice about this book beyond the lovely illustrations by Sophie Blackall, in the end, I found it tacky, overly obsessed with its own cleverness, and, frankly, insulting. This isn't a book in the vein of The Rescuers or Stuart Little. It's a book that is too self-absorbed to realize that its contempt for its characters, its valorization of abusive tropes, and its incessant tangents and desperation to seem clever makes it memorable for the wrong reasons. It's not a book for kids. It's a training manual for conservative rabbits. And there's a bloody sequel...
Full review at the link. Sorry I didn't like it. I tried :(
Review for NetGalley from an e-ARC
Mr. and Mrs. Bunny was laugh-out loud funny. Madeline's parents have been kidnapped by the foxes. Her parents are self-absorbed hippies and just plain strange, but she must find them. She enlists the help of Mr. and Mrs. Bunny to help her find her parents.
This book was at times entertainingly ridiculous and Mr. and Mrs. Bunny were a bit over the top but it made me laugh. I can imagine it will make kids laugh. It was a good detective story for the second and third grade reader.