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Dr. Rabbit
Dr. Rabbit is a story of the author's medical missionary work for the Karens of Burma. Dubbed "Dr. Rabbit" because of his name, he came to be loved by the common people in this land of tigers and elephants, riverboats and oxcarts.
127 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1970
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Eric B. Hare
23 books14 followersEric B. Hare and his family served as missionaries in Burma (Myanmar) for many years. He is best known for his mission stories, which thrilled children at summer camps and camp meetings for years.
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December 31, 2023
I read this book with my fifth and sixth graders. It's a short book, but they LOVED the stories in it! They didn't want the book to end. I think they loved the stories because the setting is in a faraway land and many of the stories are gross... people getting attacked by elephants, people getting attacked by drug addicts, people (including a baby elephant) with oozing infections, splinters in eyes, maggots in wounds... They were delightfully grossed out and they loved it!
January 24, 2013
I have always loved reading missionary stories, especially ones by Eric B. Hare, aka "Doctor Rabbit." But this one is especially endearing.
It tells about how he originally came to become a doctor in the jungles of Burma for the Karen people, how he felt while he worked there, and his victories and losses. His repetetive use of the phrase, "Don't you know? Haven't you heard? Hasn't anyone ever told you?" (though used more in his book Treasure From The Haunted Pagoda) shows his humor in superstitious situations, and his light-heartedness has us switching from tears to tears of laughter every ten minutes.
Over all, this is my favorite Eric B. Hare book as of yet.
It tells about how he originally came to become a doctor in the jungles of Burma for the Karen people, how he felt while he worked there, and his victories and losses. His repetetive use of the phrase, "Don't you know? Haven't you heard? Hasn't anyone ever told you?" (though used more in his book Treasure From The Haunted Pagoda) shows his humor in superstitious situations, and his light-heartedness has us switching from tears to tears of laughter every ten minutes.
Over all, this is my favorite Eric B. Hare book as of yet.
April 20, 2018
This story was 5% sad, 1% boring, and 96% epic story with brutally things in it. I would recommend it to people who wants to go to another place of the world as a nurse/doctor.
April 16, 2016
an excellent book for kids about missionaries. a wonderful favorite line often repeated throughout the book shares the purpose gained through missionary work, "We've finally found out special little place."
July 10, 2010
"Don't you know? Haven't you heard? Hasn't anyone ever told you?" Pioneer medical missionary, "Dr. Rabbit," tells of his work among the Karen people of Burma.
January 23, 2016
Very good book, Eric B hare was one of my favorite story tellers when I was growing up. I think my favorite was Josephine Cunington Edwards. Eric B Hare would come in second.
June 13, 2016
Read this to a Gr. 6 class. They liked it because there were lots of gross descriptions of people's limbs being amputated
May 23, 2018
Was a good book!!
May 23, 2018
I liked how he helped people.
May 23, 2018
Super nice and adventurous
May 24, 2018
This book told about the life of a missionary. I personally like books about missionaries and what they do.
March 14, 2022
Full disclosure, I did not read the full book--probably just 60% or so.
As a missionary myself, I like missionary stories and we try to encourage them with our children. However, I did not find this to be well-written (even changes tense in the middle of paragraphs at times). I could have gotten over that, if not for some other problems this would have created for our family.
Probably the biggest issue was, at least through the first half of the book, the dismissiveness of spiritual warfare. Every time that a witch doctor or curse or any similar thing was discussed, it was chalked up to some sort of natural cause, rather than supernatural. For what our family believes about evil, spiritual warfare, etc., this was a dangerous approach to take and not one that I want our kids absorbing.
I always want to be sensitive to issues of "white savior complex" and I feel this book had some of this. In particular, it did not correct comments about the "white man's God" and didn't get into any searches for redemptive analogies or anything designed to help the people see God in their culture.
The descriptions of surgeries and amputations certainly didn't help matters any, either! Those scenes, of which there were several just in the parts that I read, were not for the faint of heart.
As a missionary myself, I like missionary stories and we try to encourage them with our children. However, I did not find this to be well-written (even changes tense in the middle of paragraphs at times). I could have gotten over that, if not for some other problems this would have created for our family.
Probably the biggest issue was, at least through the first half of the book, the dismissiveness of spiritual warfare. Every time that a witch doctor or curse or any similar thing was discussed, it was chalked up to some sort of natural cause, rather than supernatural. For what our family believes about evil, spiritual warfare, etc., this was a dangerous approach to take and not one that I want our kids absorbing.
I always want to be sensitive to issues of "white savior complex" and I feel this book had some of this. In particular, it did not correct comments about the "white man's God" and didn't get into any searches for redemptive analogies or anything designed to help the people see God in their culture.
The descriptions of surgeries and amputations certainly didn't help matters any, either! Those scenes, of which there were several just in the parts that I read, were not for the faint of heart.
May 7, 2018
This story was interesting and it seemed less boring than some of the other books.....
May 15, 2018
This book is great! It was gave me too much emotion! I FELT EVERYTHING...
It looked boring but when I actually read it, I really, really, really, liked it!
It looked boring but when I actually read it, I really, really, really, liked it!
March 25, 2019
Dr Rabbit is Eric B Hare a pastor and Registered Nurse with his wife Agnes goes from Australia to the Karen people in Burma. The Karen's call him DR Rabbit. In teh Karen culture are many folktales and the smartest of all creatures is the rabbit. Thus the name Dr Rabbit. Agnes Hare is Mother Hare who works with the women and babies. She stays up many nights with mothers ill or delivering babies or treating sick babies. The Karens grow to the love the Hares with many hundreds baptized and many trained to be professionals. The hares love deeply the Karens.The Hares spend over 20+ years with the Karens before moving back to their new country and become Us citizens. In their old age, the Hares go to live with their son, Leonard. One night Leonard hears a voice in Dr Rabbit's room.He goes in there and DR Rabbit who is losing his memory has 2 suitcases packed, his Bible, and his trumpet. Leonard asks Dr Rabbit where are you going and Dr Rabbit says back to work with the Karen people in Burma. Dr Rabbit was a great storyteller about his time as a missionary in Burma and he has written over a dozen books. I have read many and each one is a 10+++.Dr Rabbit is an outstanding writer and I highly recommend all of his books.
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December 17, 2017i read it already and im doing a project on it so i need to read to see how the old times medicine is. and i like it is one of my favorite books.
May 23, 2018
I like it was a good book. It confused me a little bit but it was good.
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