Don't Go Near That Rabbit, Frank

by Pam Conrad, Mark English (Illustrator)

Philip and Kootch struggle to find a way to save their beloved dog, Frank, who has been threatened with shooting if it bothers a crotchety neighbor's prize rabbit and who brings home the rabbit one day.

47 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1998

About the author

Pam Conrad (1947-1996) was an author for children. Her book Our House: Stories of Levittown was a Newbery Medal finalist.

Ms. Conrad was born in New York City and graduated from the New School for Social Research.

Reviews

[Chris Browning · Rating 3 out of 5]

What a profoundly strange book this is, feeling like the sort of anecdote your grandparents would tell at Christmas as a kid, when they’ve outstayed their welcome and you want them to just go home. It’s got a weird combination of sentimentality and black humour that should work but somehow doesn’t, and English’s beautiful art somehow adds to this weird cloying sensation with it all feeling somehow a bit doomy and full of impending catastrophe. It just doesn’t work for me at all