I liked most of the story, but the ending is very abrupt. They also don't take any steps to solve their differences. It's a brilliant idea, but poor execution.

A squirrel and a rabbit fight over whose ruining their gardens. preschool and up

Illustrations and text do not pair well. I wish the reconciliation was a drawn out more rather than hinted at.

Might be fun to pair with Jan Thomas' THERE'S A PEST IN THE GARDEN.

The illustrations are very dark and the storyline really doesn't play well with preschool audiences so to be honest, I really don't see this book being very useful for storytelling. The theme of the book focuses on a rabbit and squirrel that have lived side by side for years yet never talked to each other. When they start to find their gardens being destroyed, they automatically start blaming the other. Without even trying to find out the facts, they start warring. Even when they discover the re...

Yuck. Illustrations are too dark. Storyline is no fun. Nothing gets resolved and the ending is just plain icky. I didn't like it at all, and would certainly never use it for a storytime. Bleah...

My niece, nephew, and I have read and enjoyed Ugly Fish and Otto: The Boy Who Loved Cars by Kara LaReau, so I thought this book would probably be entertaining.My niece and I had the same immediate aversion to the pictures in this book, which was a little surprising to me, since they were done by Scott Magoon, who illustrated several books that we loved the illustrations in. Frankly, Rabbit, and especially Squirrel, are well, a little freaky looking. I think my first response was, "Ew. That's kin...

This book is very helpful to read to the children to learn morals. The rabbit was angry that someone came to take his lettuce that he had planted in the garden. He went to face the squirrel, but the squirrel didn't know anything. The next day the squirrel blame the rabbit for taking his tomatoes. They both didn't realize that the owner of the garden was a human. This owner was angry and called them pest. Learning Experience: The teacher will talk to the children about good-deeds. The children wi...

Rabbit and Squirrel both have gardens right next to each other. They grow different things in their gardens but not only do they not share they do not even talk to one another, until one day something terrible happens to rabbits garden. So he blames squirrel,then the next day something happens to squirrels garden and he knows just who to blame. Suddenly as they are laying blame on one another someone very large comes by and tells them to scat they are pests and to go away. So they runaway into t...

I think that it’s fair to say that rabbits in gardens have certainly gotten their picture book due. Whether it’s Peter Rabbit escaping a sieve, a little Tops and Bottoms action, or even those Muncha Muncha Muncha bunnies clicking their heels, kids have no difficulty associating rabbits with garden woes. Squirrels, on the other hand, don’t get the proper amount of attention they’re warranted. Man, when I was growing up rabbits were somewhat bad but squirrels? Squirrels were worse. Your apple t...

The story is different, but it's worth probably only one read. It gives exposition fast and has conflict throughout, but it doesn't resolve the conflict. The illustrations are dark enough to fit the tone of the story, and that's the main benefit. I haven't read War and Peace, but the ending strikes me as an interpretation of how the novel ended. Does it suddenly end that way? Yes. But kudos to it being different.

This book has such potential, but while my son really likes it, the last part of the story is just goofed up.For some reason, the story ends so awkwardly. It's as if they literally skipped a page or two during printing. Kinda like the book in the movie Elf.It honestly would probably be 5 stars for me if the ending wasn't so botched.

Despite other opinions, I actually liked the illustrations. But the story? WHAT happened with the ending? It's like the author was told they had one page left and just stopped the story... very strange.

Found at the library book sale and thought the title was fun. The story is ok but nothing exceptional and the illustrations less so. Oh well, you win some and you loose some rummaging through thousands of children's books.

Squirrel and rabbit fight over who messed up their garden, but it turned out there was a third, much larger, creature that claimed both gardens as his. The rabbit and squirrel get chased away into the forest, and they still fight to this day. Maybe someday they will stop.

Silly book, fun voices, great for storytime. Mediocre ending though, kind of leaves it flat.

A fiction story of two gardeners, Rabbit and Squirrel. They live right across from each other and have never said "hi" or offered some of their vegetables to one another. One day, Rabbit wakes up to her garden being picked and thinks Squirrel came over and took her vegetables (but he didn't), and confronts him for the first time. The next day, Squirrel wakes up to find his garden picked and storms over to Rabbit's house and tell her war has sprung between them (but Rabbit didn't pick Squirrels G...

It started off good--I liked the idea of neighbors who get angry with each other and start escalating the conflict. I think it's something children could understand. But, when the human gardener enters the scene... I guess I expected some sort of shift in attitude. Instead, Rabbit and Squirrel continue to feud. And there's no real resolution. So, the story felt kind of incomplete. And, it didn't offer children the opportunity to see how conflicts might be resolved. Which, for the target audience...

There once was a rabbit who had a lovely garden of letace and carrots.There once was a squirrel who had a lovely garden of peas and tomatoes.Never did they speak UNTILOne day someone destroyed their hard work.Now, the rabbit blamed the squirrel and the squirrel blamed the rabbit.And, then, a large, booming voice of the gardener shouted "Get Out of Here You Pests!"This is a charming tale with a serious message regarding the ownership of the earth.

Rabbit and Squirrel are neighbors who have never spoken to one another. When things start going wrong with their gardens, they blame each other on instinct. Though the end left me wanting, it's a cute story about unreasonable disagreements. The pictures are charming and I was also impressed with the vocabulary (ex. zeal).