cover image The Gingerbread Rabbit

The Gingerbread Rabbit

Randall Jarrell. HarperCollins Publishers, $17.95 (64pp) ISBN 978-0-06-052768-6

The Gingerbread Rabbit by Randall Jarrell, illus. by Garth Williams, originally published in 1964, tells the story of a mother who wishes to surprise her beloved daughter with a rabbit-shaped cookie, but the cookie surprises her instead when he springs to life.