I want to make a massive gunline with flintlock rifles who were farmers or blacksmiths a few weeks before, truly the bravest of us. As for the interior, he crossed-out text, added new words and art, and turns the story into something completely different.

Reminiscent of a Little Golden Book, Birthday Bunny is the predictable story of a bunny who wakes up on his birthday and none of his friends remember it's his special day. Scieszka and Barnett tell the real story on top; both in written form, but also by creating the idea of a young naughty boy graffiti-ing his own book.What a perfect insight into the mind of a young boy (reminds me of so many doodles I’ve seen on papers over the year!

Kids will revel in the dual nature of this book and delight in Alex's brash embellishments to the original (and pretty boring) "birthday surprise" plot. I'm sure it will inspire students to give Alex's editing style a whirl of their own with other Golden Books. Scieszka himself is the merry jester of the form, taking picture subversion to a whole other level with books like The Stinky Cheese Man and The True Story of the Three Little Pigs. Alex has vastly improved what once was a limp tale about a bunny that thinks everyone has forgotten his very special day. I have actually heard about this book through one of my book friends’ reviews and as I was reading their review on this book, I was immediately interested and I went right away to my library to pick up this book!Lo and behold, I happened to stumble upon one of Jon Scieszka’s most recent children’s book “Battle Bunny (or Birthday Bunny),” co-written by Mac Barnett along with illustrations by Matthew Myers (along with some help from Alex) and this was a pretty interesting read! You can also take a peek at some fun guest edited versions by authors such as Adam Rex, Jack Gantos, and Kate DiCamillo, who put their own spin on "Birthday Bunny. The story of ‘Battle Bunny’ is a far more explosive affair, a perversion of the original text as Bunny no longer wants to be a friend, but the master of all animal kind. Then an advanced copy of the book showed up in the mail and I took it to school to see what my students thought. I wanted to see how far I could push the model in terms of posing it which is why I have gone for a forward lunging strike with the lance whilst it is using the shield as cover.

I was prepared to not like them, especially as they are the same poses as the mark 6s and the same 5 dudes repeated, but I do like them and I think they are big improvement over originals. Recommended by someone on Twitter and having already found myself a huge Scieszka fan after The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, I loved this book from the very first page onwards (or even the front cover) for the very clever play it does with form and style.The animals of the forest become luchadores and ninja warriors; Air Force One and a few presidents (Obama and Lincoln) make appearances; and just about everything explodes. So in this way, Battle Bunny is a wonderful book to use to talk to students about reading strategies. When you put two comical authors together like Jon Scieszka and Mac Barnett, you know you're going to be laughing out loud!

As you might expect, a battle of epic proportions follows and involves Battle Bunny employing a slew of Evil Genius tricks of the trade, including mind control helmets, explosives, and even poisonous snakes (the Achilles heel of many an intrepid hero…Indiana Jones, anyone? So when I ran into Jon Scieszka a few months ago and he excitedly told me about the forthcoming Battle Bunny, I was intrigued but also wary --- was this a book kids would get or would it be something more amusing for adults? Book Eating Boy has a bite taken out of the corner of its cover, and we librarians spent half our days rescuing that title from the discard box thanks to our overly enterprising pages. International products have separate terms, are sold from abroad and may differ from local products, including fit, age ratings, and language of product, labeling or instructions.I wish I was teaching in a classroom because it would have been a book that I would have brought into the classroom to share with kids (yes, even my middle schoolers. Battle Bunny’ by Jon Scieszka and Mac Barnett is the type of children’s book that sounds great when discussing the concept, but is difficult to execute well. Well Alex thinks Birthday Bunny is lame so he decides to make up his own story, crossing out and erasing words, adding new words and pictures to create Battle Bunny. Except that Alex has no use for this gift book from Grandma, and he “improves” it with his own story, turning Birthday Bunny into Battle Bunny and his birthday quest into an evil plan for world destruction that must be foiled by… superhero Alex! Alex has been given a saccharine, sappy, silly-sweet picture book about Birthday Bunny that his grandma found at a garage sale.