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Rabbit Hill
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| Author(s): | Robert Lawson |
| Illustrator(s): | Robert Lawson |
| Publisher(s): | The Viking Press |
| Year Published: | 1944 |
| Type: | Hardcover |
| Genre: | American Animal Fantasy Humorous Nature – Mammals |
| Age Range: | Ages 7-9: Short Chapter Books |
| Pages: | 128 |
| This is an | All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB) |
| LCCN: | 44008234 |
| OCLC: | 16574751 |
| Award(s): | |
Description
Little Georgie and his friends welcome the New Folks to Rabbit Hill.
As a wartime book, the paper is thinner and not as white as Lawson would have preferred. Nevertheless, the paper of the first printing is slightly heavier than that of subsequent war time printings.
The Junior Literary Guild binding is red brown and has only an outline of Little Georgie, while the trade edition is a light brown cloth with all-over decoration.
Between the third printing in October 1944 and the fourth in April 1945, the Newbery Award sticker was added to the dust jacket.
For the eighth printing in April 1960 new plates were made and the paper is much higher quality, but the shadows tend to be too dark, obscuring the detail in the original drawings.
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Other Sequels
Edward, Hoppy and Joe (1952)
Edward Rabbit and his friends Hoppy Toad and Joe Possum learn about automobiles, canoeing, roller skating, the circus and other things important to the safety and pleasure of growing animals. This Cadmus edition appears to be unique among Robert Lawson's books. It is also odd that Viking did not publish the trade edition as they were the publishers of the other "Rabbit Hill" books.
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The Tough Winter (1954)
The hard winter that Uncle Analdas, the old rabbit, prophesies comes to pass in more ways than one for Little Georgie and the other animals of Rabbit Hill when the Folks go away and leave a neglectful caretaker with a mean dog in charge. This is the story of how they ‘fought the winter through.’
The Junior Literary Guild edition is in a library binding.
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