So yes, while I have indeed very much aesthetically enjoyed in particular Richard Scarry's pictorial renderings of nature in I am a Bunny (and that I do tend to find them so much more soothing and less aesthetically frenetic than his illustrative style for say Best Word Book Ever or What Do People Do All Day?) the fact remains that to and for me, I most definitely and strongly consider it somewhat unnatural that even with Richard Scarry's illustrative emphasis on nature, Nicholas Bunny Rabbit is still drawn as being clothed liked a human and indeed I furthermore also kind of consider Ole Risom's presented and featured text as just a bit too simple and unimaginative (and as such with not really enough detail and information and this even in a picture book geared to very young children) However, as an older and of course therefore a much more critical reader and as someone who also never did encounter I Am a Bunny as a young child (and thus having no fondly nostalgic memories of Ole Risom's text and Richard Scarry's accompanying pictures either), I have to admit that albeit I do consider Nicholas Bunny Rabbit telling us all about his life and what he enjoys doing during the four seasons sweetly tenderly engaging (and that I indeed very much do enjoy and aesthetically admire Richard Scarry's illustrations and their visually magical celebration of spring, summer, autumn, winter and nature in general, even as I do wonder a bit how Nicholas would be able to fit under a fly agaric mushroom to shelter from the rain), I personally have to indeed question why since I am a Bunny clearly is a narrative celebrating nature and the natural world, why Nicholas is then still depicted by Richard Scarry as being clad like a human being and not like a truly natural rabbit just in his fur. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.Now for the intended age group, for very young children, Ole Risom's 1963 I Am a Bunny might well and totally hit the proverbial sweet spot. In the extraordinary career that followed, Scarry illustrated well over 100 books, many of which have never been out of print. There he found the perfect home for his children’s books. After a stint in the army, Scarry showed his portfolio to one of the original editors at Golden Books in 1948. RICHARD SCARRY (1919-1994) is one of the world’s best-loved children’s book authors ever! No other illustrator has shown such a lively interest in the words and concepts of early childhood.
Seuss, Jim Henson, Stan and Jan Berenstain, Leo Lionni, Laurent de Brunhoff, Charles M. He worked closely with his good friend Richard Scarry over the years at both houses. He was vice president and art director of Golden Books at Western Publishing Company from 1952-1972, and then vice president and associate publisher of the juvenile division of Random House from 1972-1990.
OLE RISOM (1920-2000) was one of the most influential publishers of mass-market books for children.
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