Author: Marilyn Sadler
Artist: Roger Bollen
Genre: Children's / Animals / Family / Humor
Year Published: 1984
Year Read: 2019
Series: P.J. Funnybunny #2
Publisher: Beginner Books
Source: Purchased
Content Rating: Ages 5+ (Confusing Message)
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Man, it’s been awhile since I last read a “P.J. Funnybunny” book, despite growing
up with the series. I think the last “P.J. Funnybunny” book I read was “It’s Not Easy Being a Bunny,” which
was many years ago. So, I finally picked
up another “P.J. Funnybunny” book
called “The Very Bad Bunny” by
Marilyn Sadler, along with artwork by Roger
Bollen and I had a blast reading this book!
P.J. Funnybunny did not mean to be a bad bunny. He
would do things like break the vase while playing in the house, spill syrup on
the floor, cut up the newspaper before his father had a chance to read it and
invite his friends over without asking his mother. Because of these things, P.J.’s parents and siblings
all think that he is a bad bunny. One
day however, P.J.’s little cousin Binky comes in for a visit and he and P.J.
started playing with each other. But
unfortunately, Binky turned out to be a bad bunny who was even worse than P.J.
as he would do things like throw P.J.’s favorite ball into the lake, letting go
of P.J.’s balloon and painting bunnies all over the walls in the house.
Now
P.J and his family are going to see just how bad a bunny can be!
Wow! I was
really having fun with this book! Marilyn Sadler did a fantastic job at
writing this book as it was full of good humor!
I enjoyed seeing the scenes where P.J. has to deal with Binky’s constant
mischief and how he acted more mature in comparison. I found it pretty amusing that P.J.’s family
thought that P.J. was the bad bunny, until they met Binky and he turned out to
be much worse than P.J. himself! I also
loved Roger Bollen’s artwork as it
is humorous to look at, especially the images of P.J. and his family having to
deal with Binky’s mischief throughout the book!
I also enjoyed seeing how big the bunnies’ ears were in this book as
they are drawn as taking over most of the space in the pages and seem to be
extremely thick in size.
Parents should know that the message of this book
might be a tad bit too confusing for some children. The way that I am looking at this story is
that P.J. has done some bad things, but he never meant to do any of those
things on purpose. He seems genuinely sorry for his actions and only acted out
badly when he was punished. Meanwhile,
Binky does a lot of bad things in this book, but he is never sorry about the
things that he has done and he continues to misbehave towards the Funnybunny
family throughout the book. So,
basically the book is trying to say that there is a difference between a child
doing bad things by accident versus doing bad things on purpose? I am not sure what the book is trying to save
about children misbehaving here. If you
know what this book is trying to say about badly behaving children, then please
feel free to tell me down below.
Overall, “The
Very Bad Bunny” is a fun and cute little book about tackling the subject of
children behaving badly and I would definitely recommend this book to fans of
the “P.J. Funnybunny” series! I would recommend this book to children ages
five and up since the message in this book might confuse some children.
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