The Rabbits' Wedding

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Summary: Wonderful book!
Review: I got this book 22 years ago for my daughter. It has always been her favorite story. When she went to college and found out that it was a banned book in the 50s because of the racial theme she was amazed. It is a delightful story of two sweet little rabbits who find happiness together. The illustrations are beautiful. I love the use of yellow as the only real color.

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Summary: Great book
Review: I read repeatedly this book with my children.The story makes everbody so happy. Pictures also makes us cozy.

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Summary: LOVE THIS BOOK!!!
Review: The pictures in this simple love story will capture the imagination of fairy tale lovers. The use of repition in the telling of this story draws and keeps the interest of young children. And those rabbits are just so cute.

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Summary: Precious Book
Review: The Rabbits Wedding was my favorite book as a 4-year-old - and it still is! The story is sweet, the illustrations are precious and young children get their first glimpse of true love. It is a very touching little story.

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Summary: Endearing Story for Children-Great Illustrations!
Review: The story line is wonderful and the emotions on the rabbits' faces are priceless. This is one of my favorite childrens' stories. I love Garth Williams illustrations. I have read this to pre-school and elementary children. They all giggle when they see the emotions on the shy little black bunnies face. This book is a must have! I am sorry that Amazon Books does not have a cover picture to show you how great the illustrations really are!!!!!

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Summary: Wonderful Story... Beautifully Illustrated!
Review: This is a book for young children. This is a simple, absolutely beautifully illustrated hardcover book. Each entire page is fully illustrated by the incomparable Gareth Williams, who illustrated many very famous children's books, and the story flows along simply and easily.

I loved this story because it gives little children an easy way to comprehend a marriage and why people have a wedding. The two rabbits decide they want to be together "forever and ever" and so they have a wedding, to celebrate their decision. It's very sweet and simple.

The sentiments at the end of the book are just as deliciously sweet. "And the little rabbit was never sad again.." How wonderful! A lovely thing to teach children.... how marriage is meant to make two people happy forever. A pleasant idea in this era of anti-committment-single-parents.

I shake my head in confusion at someone who would try to say this book contains racial themes. The rabbits are different colors, let's not "read into" a 4 year old's book. When adults start reading racial themes into a toddler's book, they personify why bigotry exists in the first place.

I purchased this book as a gift for our 4 year old ring-bearer in our upcoming wedding, as he is very excited about weddings and trying to understand why his Uncle Johnny and I are having one. This book is delightful and very beautiful. The rabbits facial expressions are just precious. I am going to re-purchase this book for myself after giving it to my new nephew.

In review, this book is very simple, very beautiful and fun to read to little ones. Recommmended! I loved it.


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Summary: Extraordinairly Precious
Review: This is a sweet sweet story and the illustrations are especially endearing. The expressions on the rabbits faces, and hilarious detail to their feet, paws, etc, make this a must have for any childs library. It is excellent to give as a gift...

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Summary: censorship
Review: This is the book that opened my eyes to the censorship of books. Around 1960, this book was quite controversial and banned in some places. I had just started working in a library and went immediately to the book to see what the fuss was about.

Oh, yeah. It's a white bunny and a black bunny. I imagine the illustrator did this so you could tell one from the other in a black-and-white book; wouldn't it be confusing if they were both white or both black?

Busy (or maybe it's idle) minds can see anything, I guess. Advocating mixed racial marriage? I didn't think so then and I don't 45 years later.

The expressions on these two rabbits' faces are so precious, I can't believe anybody sees anything more than a warm, wonderful story with incredible illustrations.

The Bookschlepper

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Summary: A little too subtle...
Review: This story of a black rabbit and a white rabbit who fall in love is intended to give young readers a message about different races living in harmony, but it is so subtle; I'm afraid its intended audience will completely miss the point. And without that point, there isn't much of a story left. The book is beautifully illustrated, but adults looking for a "message book" will find better choices without looking terribly hard.