Nobunny's Perfect

By Anna Dewdney

Book Overview

No bad bunnies No rude rabbits Use your manners, have good habits. Sometimes even good bunnies forget to use their manners. With her expressive bunny faces and playful rhymes, Anna Dewdney reminds readers that bad bunnies scratch, bite, burp, and slurp, while good bunnies give hugs, say please, and never tease. This perfect first manners book is already enjoyed by older children everywhere, and now toddlers can learn to be good bunnies, too

• Format: Board book
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670014087
• ISBN13: 9780670014088
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 6.9"
• Age Range: 2 to 5 years

Customer Reviews

Photos are better than the words.

We read this story and use our own words as the words in this book are not in alignment with the way I parent. For example, it talks about kids (or bunnies) being ‘good or bad.’ The Photos present great opportunity to talk about emotions.

Perfect for Preschool

This is the perfect book for my 3-4 year old preschool class. So many of our daily behavioral struggles are covered in this book. My kids love it. After reading it at story time, the students spend the rest of the day saying things like, "I shared my toy. I'm being a good bunny." It was nice to be able to point out that even though sometimes they act like a "bad bunny", most of the day they are all "good bunnies." What a great self esteem booster for those kids who have a more difficult time with school manners. I read hundreds of books throughout our school year and this is my favorite. So applicable in so many ways.

Perfect Fit

I teach manners to young children as part of my business, Manhattan Manners. There are lots of books out there about manners for pre-school children but this one is so dear and little ones love to hear it and look at the pictures. It is a great tool and is a perfect fit for my young students. I highly recommend it.

great book about behavior

This book is another great one by Anna Dewdney. It has her simple yet very expressive illustrations, and her nice flowing rhyme. It shows and tells about how no bunny's perfect, and displays bad behavior like not sharing, spitting food, and biting. The book then goes on to say "aren't you glad this isn't you?" and then shows how good bunny's behave, they share, they NEVER bite, and so on. My daughter loves Anna Dewdney's books, and loves to talk about how the bunny's are acting, and how sometimes they aren't nice, but then they make it right by being good. Overall a great book.

Lessons teaching children--but, in a fun way SO THEY LISTEN

"Nobunny's Perfect" uses a bunny family to teach young children a lesson in being kind. Wouldn't it be great if children (and bunnies) were born willing to share and have perfect behavior? Since that will never happen, use the delightful rhyming story by Anna Dewdney. The pictures by the author also show so much expression, that children can look-and-see what being naughty can do to others. Better, they can see the glad and happy expressions when all is well. Dewdney is perhaps more famous for her Llama, Llama, ----- books (3 now listed) but rest assured, this bunny story is every bit as child oriented. The kids will be spell-bound at it's reading, guaranteed. And such needed lessons are to be learned. It's short enough to read every time a child misbehaves. It's "double-bunny" times better than scolding. Discipline with a fuzzy tail and big ears. Elementary classroom teachers should have this on their bookshelf. Homeschools crave this type of good behavior-based lessons in story form. Children don't know it's a lesson, they just smile and enjoy. Two Llama-thumbs way up for this Anna Dewdney book.

A fun book to teach children good habits!

Reviewed by Cayden (age 3-1/2), Max (age 18-months) Aures and Mom for Reader Views (3/08) "Nobunny's Perfect" by Anna Dewdney teaches children how to be good and polite by first demonstrating terrible behavior and then by showing why good behavior is so much better. The book starts with the bunnies throwing toys, hitting, kicking, spitting food out, and biting. The second half of the story shows the bunnies sharing, following the rules, and using their manners. Comments from the first part of the book when the bunnies are naughty: Cayden: "Why is he doing that? That is bad!" Cayden: "You are not supposed to spit carrots out! Look, that guy spilled his juice!" Max: "Don't! Don't!" Cayden: "Mom, they are biting!" Cayden: "Look what he did mom!" Max: "No, no." (shaking his head) Then when we got to the part when the bunnies were good they really didn't have any comments but Max kept copying the good behavior. When it came to the hugging part he hugged and he waved goodbye at the waving part. Mom: "What was your favorite part of the story?" Cayden: "When they were nice because I don't like when people are mean." Parent's comments: "Nobunny's Perfect" is a fun book, especially for little boys who like anything disgusting! The book is very humorous and engaging and they wanted to read it again and again. The illustrations are very entertaining and, together with the text, the book is a great tool for teaching young children the difference between good and bad behavior.