Top Ten Tuesday- Books with Rabbits on the Cover

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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl

Today’s Prompt: Covers with [Item] on the Cover (You choose the item! It can be anything at all.)

Hello everyone!! I had a hard choosing this week – foxes or rabbits? I love them both and knew I wanted to pick one of them. Rabbits won out in the end, since my favorite book is Watership Down.

And because of that, it will lead the list!

I love this edition of Watership Down! I actually am asking Billy for it for Christmas. It is a tradition that he buys me a new copy for either my birthday or Christmas and this is the one that my heart is set on this year.

I absolutely loved The White Hare by Jane Johnson. It really set me in mind of a book written by Mary Stewart or Barbara Michaels, two of my favorites.

Our Crooked Hearts and Bunny were both bizarre and weird but I loved them both. Bunny especially felt like some crazy strange trip! Why are rabbits featured so heavily in horror novels and thrillers? Are they scary?

Speaking of horror and rabbits, I had to include Winterset Hollow. I never quite made it through this book but I need to try again. Although it is scary!!

Rabbit Hill I read a while ago, but I remember thinking it was a very good read and I am planning on reading it with Wyatt this spring, along with the next one on the list, The Remarkable Rescue at Milkweed Meadow.

I could not make this list without including these three – The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, The Velveteen Rabbit, and The Penderwicks. I love all three of them! The Velveteen Rabbit though makes me sob, and it made me cry even as a little girl. I never wanted to make my toys feel bad after that. And can someone tell me what a Skin Horse is because it sounds terrifying.

And a bonus eleventh book!

I absolutely love John Lewis-Stempel and this book was no exception. Hands down, he is one of my favorite nature writers.

And there we have it! All of my favorite books with rabbits on the cover!

65 thoughts on “Top Ten Tuesday- Books with Rabbits on the Cover”

  12. Joanne's avatar Joanne

    My pick probably would have been beaches or books on the cover; I’m a sucker for a good book set in a beach town or a bookstore or a library… though I did read Watership down & the Velveteen Rabbit.

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  23. Of these books, I only know Watership Down (and have the old German edition whose cover was in one of the comments), one of my favorites although it’s so dark. Do you know the animated movie? Honestly traumatizing and I always bawl at the end!
    I even had two bunnies named after Watership Down characters.

    Although I love rabbits, my choice for this would come as no surprise – cats! 😉

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    1. It does have its dark moments for sure. I find it so hopeful though, these rabbits who strike out on their own, against the odds, and end up better for it. It is a tough read though at times. I do remember that movie! I saw it as a kid and it was so traumatizing!!!!

      And I am so jealous! Which two characters?

      And lol!

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      1. The movie was even tougher to take than the book because those pictures from the beginning lingered in my mind, actually still do.
        The two were Blackavar and Hyzenthlay. Hyzenthlay’s name fit very well, but my Blackavar was no warrior rabbit and no male. She was the best bunny mom you could ever imagine.

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      2. Blackavar is one of my very favorite characters and I always say if I ever get rabbits one will be named after him. I was trying to make a patchwork Blackavar but my sewing skills are letting me down. I love that those are the two names that you chose! Your bunny babies sound very sweet!

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  26. Great list! I didn’t realize how many creepy books do have rabbits on or in them until looking at your spin on the topic. I really enjoyed Our Crooked Hearts, and this makes me think of What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher, with the especially creepy rabbits in that story.

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  27. Why I am not surprised you picked rabbits! What a fun prompt and what a fun list of books! I own Edward Tulane, was traumatized by The Velveteen Rabbit as a kid and enjoyed the Penderwicks but I haven’t come across the others.

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    1. Lol!!! I mean, it is a given if a book has a rabbit or a fox on it, I am going to at least pick it up. Then probably read it. Lol. Edward Tulane is such a good book. And yes, the Velveteen Rabbit is super traumatic! I remember I was supposed to read it to Wyatt with his kindergarten curriculum and I couldn’t bring myself to do it.

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