Doorknob the Rabbit and the Carnival of Bugs

The art in this whimsical story is superb, filled with clever visual jokes and energy. The drawings highlight the cacophonous story about a mild-mannered critter who just wants to enjoy a quiet snooze, only to discover that his home is not his castle. It has a great interactive feature too where the kids can "splat" the bugs!

Now my family likes bugs anyway, but the pages where you get to 'squish' the lot of them is a TOTAL hit with the kids. We do it again, and again, and AGAIN...and again and again. *sigh* Maybe that wasn't such a good idea, now that I think about it! :)Love the pictures of the bugs on the inside/outside covers - my boys and I will go over the ones in the front and then immediately flip to the back to see how they look all squashed. Very clever idea.

As an uncle times six, I'm always on the lookout for kids' books that will delight the kids AND be entertaining for my brothers and their wives to read many times over. I give this book my absolute highest rating. The story is a whole lot of fun, the artwork is superior, but most notably, there's lots of sophisticated and subtle humor woven in that is sure to please the grownup who gets to share it with the kids. Enough, in fact, that it takes a few passes to catch it all! I suspect, too, that the more subtle aspects of humor will reveal themselves gradually over a period of years to the kids who (I think inevitably) adopt it as a favorite. This is truly a wonderful book.

This is a very wonderful story! It shows children that there is more than one way to solve a problem and that they need to keep trying even if they fail the first time. Doorknob is a very charming and loyal figment of SerWacki's active imagination and I look forward to his next creation!

A thoroughly charming story with absolutely wonderful illustration--lots of fun for young readers!!