Bunny Loves to Learn is another great book from Parragon publishing. I love how this book combines the real and the imaginary and its done in such a cute and unique way.
Buster the Bunny and his friends, Max, Francine and Sam go to school together and today they are going to have a costume day where they dress up as someone from whichever time in history they choose. This gives a great opportunity for the animal’s learning to be brought into the book for your child to read and learn along with them, while still feeling that they are just reading a story!
They go through several ideas; vikings, pharoah, a roman soldier and more – but Max really has his heart set on being an Egyptian Mummy.
As you can see here some facts and information about Mummies is sneaked into the story, so the child reading can pick up some more facts too – or if they already know this then they can just refresh that. There is information on the other historical characters too – nothing too in depth but interesting and accessible facts for little ones that will hopefully grab their interest and keep them keen to learn more once they finish reading.
As there is no Mummy costume, Max decided to make a pyramid instead. This was fun to see in the book as we have done pyramid making projects at home ourselves.
This would be a great project to do after reading the book to extend the activity.
At the end of the story the animals all present the costumes they have chosen. Sam is a knight, and has made his own cardboard shield. Francine is a princess with a long silk dress. Buster is a viking and has made his own junk modelled viking ship. No one can see Buster and then he jumps out of his pyramid with his own Mummy costume which he has made out of bandages.
It’s a lovely story which the my boys all enjoyed. I really like how the illustration style reflects the story in that it combines the cute cartoonish characters with some very realistic elements, like a real castle wall, real tape or a real laptop mixed in.
The book is written by Peter Bentley and illustrated by Emma Foster and Deborah Melmon and is available from good book shops including Amazon*
You might also be interested in these other Parragon books that we loved:
*affiliate link. We were sent a review copy of the book through the Parragon Book Buddy Scheme
Anna Marikar, mum of four and seasoned blogger, has spent over a decade sharing her parenting journey and passion for kid-friendly crafts and free printables.
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This book looks lovely, I’ll be keeping a look out for it to add to our collection! x
The illustrations look great, really detailed, I am a huge fan of parragon books!! thanks for linking up with #ReadWithMe I have tweeted and pinned this post x
We really want to read Bunny Loves to Learn, we love the other two Bunny books. Good to hear that you enjoyed it 🙂
I didn’t even know there are more Bunny books! I must check them out 🙂 thanks for letting me know!
We are lucky enough to have this book too, we love it!
I’m a mad bunny rabbit fan, so this goes to the top of my list whether the kids like it or not!!
Hi, found you through Kids Book a Week. You have a lovely site. I love crafts and books for children too.
This looks like a lovely book. My girls love to read x#TriedTested
Seen lots of positive reviews on this book, sounds lovely #TriedTested
I love Parragon books, this looks like one to add to our wishlist! Thanks for linking up with #TriedTested
Aw this is so cute! My younger children would love this. Popping over from #TriedTested
Aww! That looks like a lovely book…..So adorable x
Ah we read this at a friend’s house the other day, its lovely and perfect timing for the preschooler 🙂
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What a lovely book and super educational too. x #TriedandTested
What a lovely book Anna. Any story that also includes activities gets a huge thumbs up from me! Thank you for joining in with #kidsbookaweek