Turi MacCombie

This book tells the story of a magic little bunny. His nose is magic and he likes to use it to turn his friends different colors. They don't think it is very funny or nice of him to do so, but he thinks it is hilarious. One day a mouse tricks him and the bunny bumps his nose and turns himself blue. He tries to undo it, but he turns himself pink. He finds his friends and none of them are colored anymore. They tell him they washed off in a pond, so the rabbit washes himself off in the pond. He forgets to wash the inside of his ears, however, and that's supposed to be the reason why rabbits ears are pink on the inside.
Since I was a little child I have owned this book, and I love it. It features fuzzy animals on every other page, and that's always attractive to a child, even to me. This book is definitely a favorite of mine, from the idea of why bunnies have pink ears to the moral of not playing jokes on people.
If I were to use this book in a classroom, I would probably find a different version of the book that doesn't feature the fuzzy animals. It would be hard to read it to a class without them all wanting to touch every single animal. (As an at home personal book though it would be great to have!) After using this book it would be fun to talk about what colors the kids think bunny ears should be. Then they could color a picture of a rabbit and make it all sorts of fun colors that they wish bunnies were. Or I could use the book to help children understand how the other animals' feelings were hurt when the bunny played mean jokes on them. It would help them to see how playing jokes isn't very nice, even if you think it's funny.… (more)