Bunnies on the Bus

A summer day in Sunny Town begins innocuously as a fluffle of bunnies boards a bus, but it soon becomes apparent that this bus ride will be anything but tame. Blowing past other animals as they go about their daily business around Sunny Town, the bouncing bus causes pandemonium wherever it careens—”No wonder there’s a fuss about the bunnies on the bus!” The simple story line—energetic bunnies take a bus, and then a train—doesn’t do the actual story told by the illustrations justice. With something new to discover on each new read through, multiple storylines for the other inhabitants of Sunny Town—including the efforts of two bandit squirrels to evade the law— and numerous clever details (e.g. exercising hamsters running inside balls, an “Am I Driving Well?” bumper sticker, newspaper headlines, book covers, etc.) add humor and pizzazz to this reading experience. While, unfortunately, some of the rhyming and cadence trips up rather than off the tongue (particularly the ending rhyme of “train”/ “again”), this lively story still begs to be read again and again.