Betty Bunny Wants Everything

by Michael Kaplan, Stephane Jorisch (Illustrator)

Overview

Preschooler Betty Bunny is back and testing her limits. Luckily, she is a loveable handful nobunny can resist.
 
This hardcover picture book in the Betty Bunny series is by author Michael B. Kaplan, creator of Disney’s T.V. series Dog with a Blog.
 
Betty Bunny doesn’t know why she can only buy one toy in the toy store when she wants them all. Her family tells Betty Bunny she can’t have everything she wants and come up with a lesson to teach her the value of money and spending limits. But the precocious bunny comes up with a hilarious loophole. Betty Bunny’s preschool perspective and negotiating skills will leave you in stitches.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803734081
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	02/02/2012
Series:	Betty Bunny
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	10.20(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile:	AD540L (what's this?)
Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

About the Author

A native of Wayland, Massachusetts, Michael Kaplan wrote plays and musicals throughout high school and at Princeton University, where he attended college. Upon graduation he moved to New York where a number of his plays received productions and staged readings, primarily at The Ensemble Studio Theatre, where he is a member. For the past twenty-two years, he has lived in Los Angeles, working as a television writer and producer on a total of twelve different prime time shows for ABC, NBC, FOX, and UPN. His career as a comedy writer has included stints as a writer and Supervising Producer on two of television's most respected comedies, Roseanne and Frasier. For his work on the latter, he received an Emmy award, as a member of the producing staff, for best comedy series. He co-created and Executive Produced I'm In the Band for Disney XD. His new show, Dog With a Blog will be premiering on Disney Channel in the fall of 2012. He is the author of Betty Bunny Loves Chocolate Cake and Betty Bunny Wants Everything. He currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife and three children.

Stephane Jorisch has illustrated numerous picture books, including New Year at the Pier, Granddad's Fishing Buddy, The Real Story of Stone Soup, and Jabberwocky, for which he won the prestigious Governor General's Award, the Canadian equivalent of the Caldecott. Mr. Jorisch lives with his wife and three children in Montreal, Canada.

Editorial Reviews

"Laugh-out-loud writing and spot-on characterizations convey a distinctive family with very relatable dilemmas."  — Publishers Weekly

"Kaplan again has his finger on the pulse of childhood insatiability . . . Audiences will recognize the impulses, celebrate the disaster, and take sly pleasure in Betty's victory over parental reason." — The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

"Toddlers and parents of toddlers will surely relate to this hilarious handful of a rabbit girl." — Booklist

"More, please." — Kirkus

From the Publisher

"Toddlers and parents of toddlers will surely relate to this hilarious handful of a rabbit girl."

Booklist

"Kaplan again has his finger on the pulse of childhood insatiability . . . Audiences will recognize the impulses, celebrate the disaster, and take sly pleasure in Betty's victory over parental reason."

The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

That boisterous Betty Bunny is back, and she's just as much of a handful as she was in her initial outing (Betty Bunny Loves Chocolate Cake, 2011). This time Betty's focused on choosing a toy at the store, but with so many choices, what's a bunny to do? Betty and her siblings are told that they can each select just one toy, and Betty at first chooses a little bunny doll. Then she quickly fills up an entire shopping cart with a towering stack of hilariously named toys, such as a Captain Gizmo Detective Kit. Her spree leads to a meltdown and a tearful trip home sans toy, but her understanding parents and siblings work with Betty to help her make an appropriate choice with her money on a return trip to the store. Kaplan's perfectly paced text captures a young child's intense emotions and limited reasoning, and the patient parents and slightly snide older brothers are real characters, as is the irrepressible Betty. Charming, large-scale illustrations in watercolor and ink are filled with details of toys and clothing, with understated colors and white backgrounds creating a fresh, contemporary air. We don't know everything about Betty Bunny yet, and her new BFF, the bunny doll she names Little Betty, might turn out to be a handful, too. More, please. (Picture book. 3-6)

Kirkus Reviews