Mine!

by Susie Lee Jin, Susie Lee Jin (Illustrator)

Overview

Several competitive bunnies compete in an epic battle to claim a single carrot in this hilarious and sweet debut picture book about sharing.

Mine! No, Mine! No, Mine! Yours? Wait...ours?

Who does the carrot belong to? For a bunch of adorable bunnies, that question is up for an endless debate. Each bunny stakes a no nonsense claim on the juicy orange veggie with a resounding “Mine!” But as the chase heats up and a snowman gets in on the action, the battle for the carrot begins to get out of hand. Will the bunnies find a way to stop the madness…and share?

Told with only four words and filled with energetic illustrations, Susie Lee Jin puts an inventive twist on the concept of sharing with this laugh-inducing tale.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781481427722
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Publication date:	01/05/2016
Pages:	40
Product dimensions:	10.20(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Susie Lee Jin grew up in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. The second of four children, she is no stranger to the word “MINE!” Her gracious parents continue to inspire her to joyfully share. Susie now lives with her husband and son in northern New Jersey. She’s the author of picture book Mine! and the Level 1 Ready-to-Read King of the Mountain. For more about Susie, please visit SusieStudio.com.

Susie Lee Jin grew up in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. The second of four children, she is no stranger to the word “MINE!” Her gracious parents continue to inspire her to joyfully share. Susie now lives with her husband and son in northern New Jersey. She’s the author of picture book Mine! and the Level 1 Ready-to-Read King of the Mountain. For more about Susie, please visit SusieStudio.com.

Editorial Reviews

10/12/2015
On a snowy hill, two rabbits find a carrot tucked inside a top hat and immediately begin fighting over it, flinging “Mine!” back and forth like it’s a tennis ball at Wimbledon. A huge gray bunny joins the fray, dropping in some “Mines” of its own, followed by a band of five little rabbits who mix things up by insisting that the carrot is “Ours!” When the real owner of the hat and carrot appears (one whose identity readers may have already guessed based on where the carrot was found), altruism proves stronger than hunger or winner-takes-all competitiveness. Illustrator Jin (the Little Monkeys board book series) nails the ending of her first outing as author: the final spread has a dash of dark humor, while simultaneously enforcing the value of delayed gratification. She also impressively varies her compositions from intense close-ups to comics-style framings. But there’s little dynamism in her action, and her rabbits are all cut from the same emotional cloth—there isn’t much distinguishing the initial two rabbits from each other, let alone the ones that follow. Ages 4–8. (Jan.)

Publishers Weekly

"Jin’s debut is a ridiculous romp and a positive lesson in sharing"

December 15, 2015 - Booklist

"Jin’s debut is a ridiculous romp and a positive lesson in sharing"

December 15, 2015 - Booklist

2015-09-16
A minimalistic, humorous tale about competitive bunnies, a carrot, and the notion of sharing. During a nice morning in wintertime, two bunnies riding on a red sleigh encounter a black top hat with a carrot inside. Through a series of illustrations, they are shown shouting "Mine! Mine!" to each other while fighting over the carrot. After a vigorous action sequence in which each fights for the carrot, they lose it, and a big bunny and five little bunnies appear to add competition over the much-desired carrot. It is when a morose, noseless snowman enters this scene of covetous chaos that bunnies and young readers are challenged with the concepts of possession, sharing, and ownership. In this debut picture book, Jin tells the story with only three words: the possessive pronouns "mine," "ours," and "yours." The textual simplicity results in a story that is heavily reliant on the pastel-hued acrylic illustrations, the emotions conveyed with crystalline clarity through facial expressions, page composition, and pacing. This nondidactic story is a natural for collections about sharing, effectively softening the natural tendency toward possessiveness of most living things through its sweet illustrations. (Picture book. 2-5)

Kirkus Reviews