Get out your pencils, crayons and journals – you’re going to want to write after you read this book. It makes you feel like everyone can have fun writing a book and even illustrating!! My Perfect Picture Book pick is…..
Title: Bunny Loves to Write
Author: Peter Bently
Illustrator: Emma Foster & Deborah Melmon
Publisher: Parragon Books 2013
Genre: Fiction
Audience Age: 2-10
Themes/Topics: Creativity/Friends
Opening Sentences: One day, Buster was going out to play. “Always carrying a book!” chuckled Mom. “What is it this time, Buster?
Synopsis: Buster Bunny has to write a story for school. He can’t think of any ideas until his friends give him plenty of ideas.
Why I like it: Mr. Bently has written a wonderful story that inspires creativity using everyday things around us. When I read it to my grands they immediately wanted to draw and write. Buster and his friends write a story together and illustrate it in his journal. The journal becomes a story within a story. The illustrators use beautifully bright, large watercolor illustrations combined with a collage feel of photos and textures. The journal looks like a real handwritten journal and is illustrated with line drawings. It even inspired me with an idea for a classroom project.
Activities & Resources: Give your child a simple journal or blank book and let them write their own story. Cut out some magazine pictures or textures and let your child glue them in the journal to illustrate their story.
Here is a link to some wonderful story starter pictures for young children.
Availability: Major Booksellers. Also available as a Nook book from Barnes & Noble.
(Susanna Leonard Hill is the originator of PPBF and you can find all the other PPB recommendations and links on her blog.)
Enjoy the read and blessings on your creativity today!!
Laura (Grandmamiller)
Laura Miller (a.k.a. Grandmamiller) 
This one complements Susanna’s PPBF offering! Fun!
Great minds, Jarm!
Between this and Susanna’s pick, I may get writer’s cramp. ‘Can’t wait!
Joanne – writer’s cramp is good, as long as it’s not in the brain! 😉
That’s perfect for Hannah she’s always her own versions 😉 Thanks, Laura
Catherine, glad you can share it with Hannah!
Wow, three PPBF’s this week about writing! This market is a busy one.
Good things come in threes I guess! 😀
This is certainly a keeper. I love books that encourage kids to imagine and write their own story. Great pick.
Thanks for stopping, Patricia – and YES we need books that encourage kids (and us adults) to be creative.
This book looks so delightful, Laura! And I love that it’s one that encourages kids to write – since I posted a book like that myself this week 🙂 Love your activities too!
Thanks, Susanna – and yes – I like the resource page I found. Very generous with story starter pics.
Great classroom book as many kids struggle with this.
Joanna, I was one of those kids that struggled. I never thought my work was good enough. I’d hear someone else’s idea or see their art and felt mine was sub-par. It’s so nice the way this book incorporates and completes the characters project.
Awww….. so cute. Love the whole idea, from cover to cover. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks, Diane. And speaking of cover-to-cover, the inside covers on this look like a checkered table cloth which is part of the story.
Are you sure this book is about Buster, not a certain 11-year-old boy named Erik? 😉 I LOVE the opening! 😀
Erik, I thought of you when I read this and had even mentioned your name – but didn’t want you to think I was picking on you so I deleted my comment. I said something like…seems to me Buster and our favorite new author, Erik, were in the same class together
Ha ha! You can pick on me! I do always carry a book. 🙂 If I get picked on for reading and writing too much, I am okay with it! 😉
That bunny is just too cute. I love bunnies. I’ll have to check out this one! Thanks!
A book within a book – what a great concept for getting kids writing! Thanks for hopping by my PPBF post too 🙂