Brave Bunny

Brave Bunny by Ruth Lercher Bornstein, a quiet, small-format picture book filled with poetic phrasing, first appeared in print as Indian Bunny in 1973. A young rabbit declares, ""I'm going out into the world,"" and hippity-hops along forest, stream and meadow, meeting animal friends. Bunny fancies himself a Native American and pictures himself in the starlit night, beating a drum: ""My friend the Owl will hear me. And when the moon is high and I crawl into my tepee, my friend will fly over to say, Good night, Brave Bunny.""