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What a concept! The beloved Nutbrown Hares hop into a board book, enticing the youngest of readers to explore colors.
Is there a color that Little Nutbrown Hare doesn't like? Here's a beautiful red flower to sniff, a blue-winged bird to make friends with, yellow daisies to pick, and a leaping green frog to chase. But when it comes to brown, that's a color to love, not just like -- especially if it's related to Big Nutbrown Hare!
Author Notes
Sam McBratney was an Irish children's book author. He was born on March 1, 1943 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He earned a degree in history from Trinity College Dublin. He taught primary and secondary school from 1970 to 1990. After teaching he focused on his writing. He wrote over 50 books in a career of nearly 30 years. His books included Mark Time (1969), The Chieftan's Daughter (1993) which won the Bistro Book of the Year Award (1994), The Lough Neagh Monster (1994), Put a Saddle on a Pig (1991), which was republished as You Just Don't Listen, in 1993. His most popular book was Guess How Much I Love You, published in 1994 (illustrated by Anita Jeram). Will You be My Friend?, is the sequel and has a publication date of September 29, 2020. Sam McBratney died on September 18, 2020 at the age of 77.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (2)
Publisher's Weekly Review
Little Nutbrown Hare explores five colors that can be found in his idyllic woodland home, which is as cozy as ever in Jeram's delicate ink-and-watercolor artwork. McBratney smartly incorporates dashes of alliteration, consonance, and rhyme into the brief text ("Hello, yellow.... Good morning, green"), to aid in the learning and remembering of the colors. The name of each color also appears on a painted panel opposite scenes that show Little Nutbrown Hare meeting blue birds, red ladybugs, and other animals, before giving Big Nutbrown Hare a giant hug amid the ferns. Up to age 1. (Jan.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Kirkus Review
An exploration of color from McBratney and Jeram's nutbrown hares of Guess How Much I Love You fame. On the left of each double-page spread, Little Nutbrown Hare encounters an animal or a plant in the featured color, such as a yellow flower, a green frog and a red ladybug. The hare greets these creatures and labels their colors with simple salutations, "Hello, yellow. // Good morning, green. // Hi there, red." The facing pages caption, in a bold, black type, each of the colors on a slightly mottled and muted background of the shade in question. The last spread bears the text "Hello, Nutbrown!" and shows Big Nutbrown Hare hugging the little one amid the animals and plants from the previous pages. While Jeram's watercolors are as fluid and playful as her work for the other franchise titles, two things get in the way of a solid presentation: the book's trim size and its muted hues. The art is too dainty for the size of the pages, which are 5 inches square. The ladybug, in particular, is difficult to make out. Also, the colors are quite pale, which may confuse young learners. The objects on the "red" page look mostly pink, and some of the leaves on the "brown" page look to be a pale orange or yellow. While this is the first title in the series aimed directly at babies and young toddlers, the small size of the art and the washed-out color values make it an imperfect concept book. (Board book. 6 mos.-2)]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
