Tao Nyeu
Dial Books for Young Readers (2010)
My entire family is enamored! When my husband falls in love with a book enough to buy a copy for his classroom (he teaches pre-k), I know it's a good one. I like everything, but my husband has extreme good taste and is very selective.
Mirette calls this book a chapter book and technically it is. There are three chapters: Muddy Bunnies, Dusty Bunnies and Bunny Tails. This made my daughter really proud because she was reading a chapter book. She even insisted in "reading" it to her grandparents, having memorized much of it. The pictures are silkscreened using water-based ink. The predominant color in each of the chapters is different: Blue, Brown, and Green allowing a young pre-reader to know which chapter they are reading. (a very good idea in my opinion).
And the story is FUNNY! In each of the chapters, a goat mistakenly does something to a bunny. For example in Bunny Tails, Mr. Goat is trimming the hedges, not realizing that he accidently trimmed off the bunnies tails. Bear always knows "just what to do" and he sews them back on.
We also bought her book Wonder Bear, part of her thesis project and Squid and Octopus (which is such a GREAT book about friendship that I can even see buying it for another adult).
This is a funny interview with Tao Nyeu (and the discovery of a fantastic blog for us fellow kid's book lovers): http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=1917
http://www.taonyeu.com/v2/info/
http://www.pippinproperties.com/authors-illustrators/tao-nyeu/
