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Summary: Leilani's "Rabbit Hill" Book Review
Review: I read "Rabbit Hill" by Robert Lawson and I rate the book 4 stars. It was all realistic and the pictures described the book very well. I think that kids under ten should read the book. Unless you're reading it to a small kid as a bedtime story or just for fun, read it. It was very good and depending on who you are, then it might bring a little tear to you're eye at the end of the book. Personally I rate it an eight out of ten. Kids that are in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade.
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Summary: Someone new on the Hill
Review: I read the book Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson and I would rate this book 4 stars.
In the book Rabbit Hill, the Folks that once lived in the Big House have moved away. The Folks that moved in after them let the lawn and garden go to the pits. The animals that live on The Hill are now forced to survive with very little. When word comes around that New Folks are coming, Little Georgie and all the other animals hope they are planting Folks. While Little Georgie goes to get his uncle, he makes up a song. The song's popularity grows within The Hill. Soon everybody was singing along with Little Georgie.
When the New Folks arrive the animals are so happy because they are planting folks! They even made the old garden bigger! The animals all decided to wait to midsummer's eve to pick to crops they need. When Little Georgie gets run over by a car, the Folks take him in to care for him. The animals think they are trying to torture him. Will Little Georgie survive? Will he make it back before midsummer's eve? You'll have to read to find out!
I would recommend this book highly to all age groups!
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Summary: Didn't fly as a read-aloud story
Review: I read this book earlier in the year and I got so bored while reading it, I almost didn't finish it. The beginning was so boreing I actually fell asleep reading it! The ending however, wasn't so bad. It was actually quite suspenseful. All in all, I think that younger children would enjoy it more than teens and adults.
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Summary: Not my first choice for a book
Review: I read this book earlier in the year and I got so bored while reading it, I almost didn't finish it. The beginning was so boreing I actually fell asleep reading it! The ending however, wasn't so bad. It was actually quite suspenseful. All in all, I think that younger children would enjoy it more than teens and adults.
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Summary: Fifty-year favorite still shines
Review: I remember this book fondly for two reasons: first, for having it read to me as a child -- the rabbits, and their friends, are vividly realized characters worthy of the best children's literature. The plot was interesting, and suspenseful -- this despite the fact there are no "evil" motives, simply conflicting needs and insufficient communication. (Contemporary readers take note.)
Second, because it's an profoundly ecological book, without being either downbeat or preachy. The animals, who were persecuted by the farmer, nonetheless were fed by his crops; the New Folks (a bookish man and his wife, together with their black maid and a winningly battlescarred tom cat) aren't about to gas or trap them, but neither do they farm. The ending is a bit of a deus ex machina, but nonetheless quite possible and indeed, what would happen, and I will *not* reveal it to you.
Altogether, a great book.
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Summary: It was not the best....
Review: I thought this book was O.K but definitely not my favorite book. My favorite part was when the animals found out that the new people were coming. I recommend this book for 4, and 5 grade girls and boys. I rate this book one stars.
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Summary: Animal personalities come alive
Review: Looking back, this book is probably partly responsible for my being a vegatarian today. Who could EAT little Georgie! My mother read it to me when I was 4 or 5. I have re-read it an an adult and still love it.
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Summary: Beautifully illustrated
Review: New Folks are coming to the Hill! All of the animals are very excited, especially the rabbit Little Georgie. Times have been hard, food scarce - what a change New Folks would provide! But would they be decent Folk, or gun-slingers? The whole Hill watches and waits. The New Folks arrive, and they seem decent people - very decent indeed, and understanding of the needs of Small Animals. And it seems that good times have finally arrived - until something terrible happens to Little Georgie, and the Hill becomes filled with spite. Will good times ever TRUELY come? I love the characters - Father, the prim Southern gentleman with a love of bluegrass, Mother, the chronic worrier, Uncle Analdas, the grumbling bachler rabbit; and of course Little Georgie. I love the illustrations as well!Subnote: Be sure to buy a copy with the Newbery medal seal displayed on the cover, copies without it cut out all mention of the Folk's black cook, Sulpheria. While she is not an important character, we just can't let censorship get in the way >: -(
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Summary: rabbit hill??
Review: new folks coming to rabbit hill and all are excited because these folks may be "plantin folks." In this book there are many animal charecters, some of the main ones are lil' georgie, a rambunctious little rabbbit with loads of energy. And Uncle Analdas who always seems to have misplaced those "dangblasted" specticles. Join lil' geogie on his adventure to uncle Analdas's burrow. And experiencethe suspence that the animals feel waiting to find out who the new folks are. I think this book is great for young readers in 2,3, or 4th grade.young readers will have a blast on the imaginative hill were communitys of small animals live. Robert Lawrence does a great job telling this newberry award winning tale. You might catch yourself holding your breath while the contractor decides weater to build the wall on top or around moles hole. This book is well organized, suspensful, full of action, and adventure. its so great because it blends human decisions with animal reaction. I recomend this book to young readers in grades 2,3, or 4th.
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Summary: Rabbit Hill
Review: On a hill in the peaceful Connecticut countryside stands an old foursquare house, in which for many years there lived a family of good Folks. They respected the Small Animals that shared their Hill, their children played hide-and-seek with them on warm evenings and their old lady Spaniel even raised an orphaned fox cub. Then they moved away, and hard times fell upon the Hill. The Small Animals, forced to do their "marketing" in Fat-Man-at-the-Crossroads' garden, have wondered for a long time whether they would ever get such Folks again. Now, at last, New Folks are coming, and the question in every Animal's mind is, what kind of Folks will they be?
"Rabbit Hill" is perhaps Lawson's best-known book, though he wrote many that deserve to be returned to print. Based upon the actual hill on which he lived, it follows the adventures of the Rabbit family, Father (a Southern gentleman from the Kentucky Bluegrass who talks like a dictionary), Mother (a chronic worrier), Little Georgie, and the permanently-visiting Uncle Analdas, and their many animal neighbors--Willie Fieldmouse and his vast family, the forgetful Gray Squirrel, Foxy, Phewie the Skunk, old Porky the Groundhog, the Red Deer and his Doe and Fawn, Mole for whom Willie must often "be eyes," and more. His Animals are drawn lovingly and accurately both in words and pictures (he did his own illustrations) and behave recognizably as we might expect them to do if they were intelligent enough to speak to one another. And there's a surprising amount of excitement for such a short book: Georgie's flight from a pursuing dog and his remarkable leap across Dead Man's Brook, the question of whether the Folks will be Good Folks or not, and the aftermath of Georgie's mishap with a car on the Black Road. The close of the tale is heart-warming and beautiful. This is a kids' book to which I return over and over.
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