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The Dadmag Guide To Children's Books
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The Tale of the
Flopsy Bunnies
(Ages 2 and up)
In Beatrix Potter's The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, the rabbits outsmart the gardener even when he has the upper hand. The greater irony is that they can only do it with the help of the resourceful field mouse, whose work permits the feckless, "improvident" rabbit parents to rescue their children. Potter offers more than irony, though. Her watercolor renderings of bunny poses and haberdashery, however she did them, are uncanny. The nuances and non-condescending vocabulary--kids learn what 'soporific' means--make this tale stand up to innumerable re-readings.
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