![]() It is a simple and seemingly implausible story about the meeting of her new baby bunny, Marshmallow, with her big spoiled Tabby cat, Oliver. A winner of the Caldecott Medal, it's called Marshmallow.īack in 1942, the same year of publication as Margaret Wise Brown's well-known children's book, The Runaway Bunny, a talented lady named Clare Turlay Newberry wrote and illustrated a lesser-known rabbit classic. There is one, though, that has been in libraries for over 50 years (and was reissued to bookstores in 1991). Amidst the deluge of children's books on the market with rabbits as main characters, there are very few true stories like the ones we could tell. Some of us are continually bogged down with jobs and families and haven't quite gotten our own rabbit book to the publisher. ![]() Many of us have always wanted to write a book all about our own house rabbit and illustrate it with wonderful drawings that show what a great companion a rabbit is. Story and pictures by Clare Turlay Newberry ![]()
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