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• A little long for storytime, a naughty queen tries to steal Emily Brown's well loved bunny-Stanley.

  4.00 out of 5

  dangerlibearian

• That. Rabbit. Is. Cute. I like how Emily Brown refers to individual people as "Army" and "Navy," and I like the adventures she and Stanley get up to. The mixed media illustrations work especially well in a story that blurs the line between imagination and reality.

  4.00 out of 5

  adge73

• The Queen wants Emily Brown's special toy rabbit, Stanley. Emily is pleasant about the requests at first - although she repeatedly corrects the Queen and her ministers for calling Stanley Bunny Wunny - but as the requests persist, and change from petitions to commands, Emily loses her patience. She insists that they leave her alone; instead, special commandos raid her house at night and steal Stanley away! Emily is a no-nonsense girl, so she marches up to the palace to rescue her bunny. Surprisingly, the Queen is happy to see her, because Stanley isn't right anymore - he has lost all his character. Emily rescues her toy and tells the queen the secret for a unique friend: buy the toy brand-new, and then love it and play with it and treasure it, until it is truly your own.The message behind the story reminded me of the Velveteen Rabbit; that a possession is valuable due to sentimental reasons and not for material appearance, and also that a toy can be a beloved playmate for a child, can be real for her. A sweet message. In this case, it's delivered with a good deal of humor. The illustrations for the book are also funny, juxtaposing an image that is a photograph with the line drawings and watercolors of the rest of the page. The hyper real joined to the cartoony adds to a surreal feel for the book, and corresponds to Emily's vivid pretend play. It's an interesting book, very readable, and with a good message that is delivered with laughs.

  3.00 out of 5

  nmhale

• Emily defends her stuffed rabbit from the naughty queen who is determined to acquire it any way she can.

  out of 5

  nancyken

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