Little Grey Rabbit’s Birthday

Little Grey Rabbit’s Birthday
Illustrations by Margaret Tempest.

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    Alison Uttley wrote Little Grey Rabbit’s Birthday around the end of 1941, along with Hare Joins the Home Guard but it was not available to the public until December 1944. I like to imagine she received letters from children wanting to know Rabbit’s birthday, or because her characters were “real” that they naturally would have a detail like a birthday.

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Review: Little Grey Rabbit’s Year of Stories

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Little Grey Rabbit is the heroine of a collection of Animal genre-fantasy stories by Alison Uttley. The first book, The Hare, the Squirrel, and the Little Grey Rabbit was published in Great Britain in 1929 and first illustrated by Margaret Tempest. The books are slice of life type stories that usually deal with Grey Rabbit and her friends outwitting an enemy, celebrating a holiday, or enjoying an activity. Little Grey Rabbit’s Year of Stories is a hardcover book and it contains the following Little Grey Rabbit stories:

  • Hare and the Easter Eggs
  • Little Grey Rabbit’s May Day
  • Little Grey Rabbit Goes to the Sea
  • Water Rat’s Picnic
  • Fuzzypeg goes to School
  • Little Grey Rabbit’s Christmas

The six stories are organized seasonally beginning with spring and ending with winter. They are mainly holiday, vacation  and life event stories.

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