Brown Rabbit's Shape Book

Little Rabbit Books

by Alan Baker

Brown Rabbit finds a box of balloons and creates various shapes from them

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Mathematics, Rabbits, Animals, Fiction

32 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

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Reviews

[Michelle Farella]

I love this rabbit!

[madziar]

Mały króliczek dostał paczkę z tubą pełna kolorowych baloników. Podczas rozpakowywania paczki i dmuchania balonów uczymy się rozmaitych kształtów.

[Brett]

Still dig that weird artwork. Also dig that it's part of a series.

[Paula Greenfield]

A good book for teaching shapes.

[Lady reading under the Willow]

I really like all of Alan Baker's rabbit books I've read thus far. Not your average ABC/123/colors/shapes books, they have simple but engaging storylines. Definitely board books to grow with.

[Miss Sarah]

Brown rabbit is having some fun with shapes he finds in a box including ones he makes out of balloons. preschool and up

[Terresa Wellborn]

Themes: shapes, bunnies/rabbits
Ages: toddler-K

[Jessica Calderon]

cute learning shapes book, short read.

[Kryssy]

Kryssy old childhood book - one of favorites because of the continuation from book to book

[Library Lady Terri]

Hockessin Library - Toddler Tales - 1/7/26

[Emily Hayden]

Shape unit

[Jaksen]

This book is right up there with White Rabbit's Color Book. My grandsons love this one equally as much.

In this book Rabbit receives a package in the mail - from UPS my grandsons will tell me - and in it is a tube filled with balloons. Each page in the book mentions the shape of things - a square box, a cylinder, and each balloon has a specific shape. AND each balloon, after being blown up, either flies away (the boys love it when I imitate a balloon taking off, complete with sound effects) or pops. At the end the rabbit is all 'out of puff' and falls asleep in the now-empty box.

This was our first rabbit book and I read it so much the cover is falling off. Grandson aged six still likes it and will whip through it himself; grandson aged two could have me read this one over and over and over ...

One of our all-time fav. books.

[Mary]

Brown Rabbit finds a package with different colored balloons that he blows up into different shapes. A gently paced picture book with lovely illustrations that will be useful to include in preschool units about shapes, sizes, and colors.

[Elizabeth]

This is a wonderful book to teach preschoolers about shapes. I used it to do my interactive lit, last semester.

[Dolly]

This is a cute book about a rabbit who gets a gift and the shapes that are contained within the gift. Short and colorful...perfect for younger children.

[Shelly Koressel]

Good for preschool and kindergarten. Good for teaching about shapes.

[Rachel]

Anything with balloons makes me smile

[Elaine]

Interesting shape choices....

[SL]

This one would be better for the younger kidlets since it's so short and brief.

[E & E’s Mama]

A great book introducing basic shapes through a cute story about a bunny who receives a gift. Great for toddlers and preschoolers

[Cool]

DMW read to Doe

[Theresa]

emergent readers shapes , brown rabbit is opening a package

[Laurie Gaynor]

Great book to accompany 'The Greedy Triangle'.

[Vivian]

Baker's ingenious CONCEPT series, featuring rabbits and objects, have been recently reissued. Hooray! This book would work well with a birthday theme, a rabbit theme, a shape theme, a color theme, a balloon theme, and a physics theme. Wow-- quite a package of themes to find in one little book with only two sentences on each page!

[CE]

There are standard and non-standard shapes. Beautiful illustrations. My toddler loved the balloon that burst and has started letting me know as soon as we spot them, which one it is and what will happen. She also enjoys tracing the paths of the balloons that get away and laughing at what Brown Rabbit does at the end.