Lavender: The Bravest Rabbit in the World

by Posy Simmonds

How Lavender became the Bravest Rabbit in the World

Whenever there is the slightest hint of danger, Lavender the rabbit can be found with her friends the goose and the hens clucking with concern. So when a group of tourist town foxes arrive on their first visit to the countryside, Lavender is very wary indeed, even though the town foxes think that the idea of eating rabbits is just sick. Rabbit’s courage is challenged even further when the town foxes invite the rabbits to a party. However, Lavender joins the group and even perseveres when the others decide that the situation has become quite scary. What happens next, as the town foxes come face to face with their hungry country cousins, ensures that Lavender returns home a heroine!

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens

32 pages, Hardcover

First published April 7, 2003

About the author

Rosemary Elizabeth "Posy" Simmonds MBE is a British newspaper cartoonist and writer and illustrator of both children's books and graphic novels. She is best known for her long association with The Guardian, for which she has drawn the series Gemma Bovery (2000) and Tamara Drewe (2005–06), both later published as books. Her style gently satirises the English middle classes and in particular those of a literary bent. Both of the published books feature a "doomed heroine", much in the style of the 18th- and 19th-century gothic romantic novel, to which they often allude, but with an ironic, modernist slant.

Reviews

[Liselotte]

Wat een schattig boekje!! Ik denk dat deze beter is om voor te lezen op bed, deze is wat moeilijker te gebruiken in de klas omdat het best kleine tekeningen zijn en een beetje meer een strip. Ontzettend schattig!

[Debra]

Cute little tale. May be too scary for the little ones, though. "Good" foxes and "Bad" foxes. The bad foxes want to eat the rabbits. See what I mean about scary - although certainly realistic.

[Rozemarijn]

3.5

"Rozemarijn" in Dutch. Then it's a must-read.