Nick Bland, How to Make a Snowman (Bunny and Bird #3), HarperCollins Publishers, October 2024, 24 pp., RRP $24.99 (hbk), ISBN 9781460764077
This is third in mega-author Nick Bland’s preschooler series, Bunny and Bird (Reviews here – Book One and Book two). This time Bunny has discovered something very unusual – a moveable hole (think Coyote and Roadrunner), which Bunny brings back to the playground to show Bird. Bunny begins to tell a tall tale to Bird the strange happenings when the hole was found, reporting that a tiger, a bear and a bull all fell into the hole.
Readers might think Bunny is exercising a vivid imagination, if not for the fact that we get to see the tiger, the bear and the bull all exit the hole in the background. As they do this, they build a snowman, the only evidence on which Bird can rely to believe Bunny’s story.
As with the other books in the series, the themes of innocence and imagination are key in this book. Young readers will love to feel that they are ‘in’ on reality, even if Bunny and Bird are unaware.
This series is sweet and gentle, best suited to an ‘old soul’, or a child who needs to be reminded of their ability to play and make-believe.
Reviewed by Cherie Bell
