Rabbits on the Run

Animal Ark [GB Order] #36

by Lucy Daniels

Mandy Hope loves animals more than anything else. She knows quite a lot about them too; both her parents are vets and Mandy helps out in their surgery, Animal Ark.

Farmer Sam Western is threatening to destroy the rabbits in a nearby warren, as they keep going on to his land to eat his crops. Mandy, James and their friend John Hardy are desperate to save the hungry rabbits. The question is, how? Then Mandy come sup with a radical to relocate them. But will it work?

Genres: Animals, Childrens, Fiction

160 pages, Paperback

Published November 11, 1998

About the author

Lucy Daniels is the collective name for the writing team that created the bestselling children's book series Animal Ark, many of the books are also published under the name of the series creator, Ben M. Baglio.

Reviews

[Rena Sherwood]

This is the sequel to Bunnies in the Bathroom, which you really need to read before this one. You should also read Goat in the Garden, too. Ideally, you'd read the series in order, but in the real world, that often doesn't happen.

This was one of 35 or so books that Scholastic in America would choose not to publish. I've no idea why. As a reading experience, it's quite lively. It not only features rabbits, but also ferrets, cats and dogs, including my absolute favorite character in the series, Blackie. It also features appearances by the goat Houdini and his owner.

What it doesn't feature is Mandy's three pet rabbits. For some unknown reason, they vanished from the series about 15 books ago. I had hoped there would be some mention that they ever existed ... but got no joy there.

This was written by Sue Welford, veteran of many books in the Animal Ark Universe, not just the Animal Ark series.

Although I really enjoyed reading this, I do highly doubt that moving a colony of wild rabbits would cause them to actually stay in the new location. However, I am in no way a rabbit expert. Just a quick Google shows that moving wild rabbits usually don't have happy endings.

Illustrator Jenny Gregory did a decent job, especially with the rabbits. She does have trouble with dogs. Blackie seemed out of proportion in a drawing of him and James on a bike.

[Taylor]

Loved this series when I was younger. Still a huge animal lover and would like to read the rest of this series!

[Emma]

Another of those books that i read when i was younger as this is the type of book i liked back then