Title: Sato the Rabbit
Author: Yuki Ainoya
Date: 2021
Publisher: Enchanted Lion
Length: pages not numbred
ISBN: 978-1-59270-318-0
Illustrations by the author
Quote: "One day, Haneru Sato became a rabbit. He's been a rabbit ever since."
No he's not, the child reader or listener can see and may say. He's a boy in a rabbit suit. So his adventures in this book (and two following volumes) are in the genre known as Magical Realism. He doesn't find out about the way things really work; he has a good time fantasizing about the way they might work. Instead of learning how to raise watermelons, he fantasizes being small enough to climb into a watermelon end and float out to sea, eating melon as he goes. He imagines using one half of a walnut as a bed and the other half as a bath. It's that sort of book.
It's not hard to write a review of a picture book that contains more words than the actual book. It seems, however, like overthinking the matter. Picture books are loved because the pictures are pretty or funny or cute, and these pictures qualify.
If you are, or a child to whom you read is, in the mood for whimsical fantasy adventures, then you will enjoy this picture book, and you might want to collect the further adventures of Sato.
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