Bunny & Tree

Gr 2-4–A ravenous, red-eyed wolf ambushes a group of rabbits and chases after Bunny, a blue-tailed, white rabbit with one gray and one yellow ear. Bunny narrowly escapes the wolf’s pursuit and finds protection from Tree, who spontaneously morphs into the head of a wolf, scaring the wolf away in defeat. Bunny gratefully wraps mismatched ears around Tree’s trunk in a hug and the fast friends quickly focus on reuniting Bunny with the lost rabbits. Uprooting Tree, the pair embark on an odyssey mobilized by a small red wagon and Tree’s enchanted ability to transform into various modes of transportation. When their journey delivers them to the peak of a tall mountain, Bunny shouts desperately for the missing rabbits. Hearing nothing but silence, Bunny weeps until a large bird soars in with a message of hope. Zsako’s painterly dreamlike illustrations are gently colored and interspersed with white page breaks. A few illustrations depict black speech bubbles with simple, white pictographs conveying brief communication between characters. This lengthy, wordless picture book extends across nine acts followed by an epilogue and is saturated in complexity, making it most accessible to an older elementary school aged audience.