This book was a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year for 1999. :) If you know Dav Pilkey's books, you won't be disappointed by this title! In a starred review, Publisher's Weekly called it a fun "pun-o-rama." So true. Hot-dog costume, but one brave act shows what a hero he really is! TheĬriticism gets worse when he shows up to trick-or-treat wearing a Oscar is tired of being made of by the other dogs. The kids can't help but immediately fall in love with little Oscar, the dachshund hero of the book! Look for ready guffaws from young audiences, whether read or sung, though those attuned to disability stereotypes may find themselves wincing instead or as well.We love reading The Hallo-Wiener each Halloween season. Even though the book has no included soundtrack, the sly, high-spirited, eye patch–sporting donkey that grins, winks, farts, and clumps its way through the song on a prosthetic metal hoof in Cowley’s informal watercolors supplies comical visual flourishes for the silly wordplay. It is three-legged, and so a “wonky donkey” that, on further examination, has but one eye and so is a “winky wonky donkey” with a taste for country music and therefore a “honky-tonky winky wonky donkey,” and so on to a final characterization as a “spunky hanky-panky cranky stinky-dinky lanky honky-tonky winky wonky donkey.” A free musical recording (of this version, anyway-the author’s website hints at an adults-only version of the song) is available from the publisher and elsewhere online.
In the song, Smith meets a donkey on the road. The print version of a knee-slapping cumulative ditty. This bunny escapes all the traps but fails to find a logical plot or an emotional connection with readers. Cartoon-style illustrations have a 1960s vibe, with a slightly scary, bow-tied bunny with chartreuse eyes and a glowing palette of neon shades that shout for attention.
Readers of previous books in the series will understand the premise, but others will be confused by the rabbit’s frenetic escapades. These traps include an underground tunnel, a fluorescent dance floor with a hidden pit of carrots, a robot bunny, pirates on an island, and a cannon that shoots candy fish, as well as some sort of locked, hazardous site with radiation danger.
The narrative focuses on how the Easter Bunny avoids increasingly complex traps set up to catch him with no explanation as to who has set the traps or why. The rabbit then abruptly takes off on its delivery route with a tiny basket of eggs strapped to its back, immediately encountering a trap with carrots and a box propped up with a stick. The bunny narrates its own story in rhyming text, beginning with an introduction at its office in a manufacturing facility that creates Easter eggs and candy. The bestselling series (How to Catch an Elf, 2016, etc.) about capturing mythical creatures continues with a story about various ways to catch the Easter Bunny as it makes its annual deliveries.
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