A little bunny name Claire is having a bad day where nothing seems to go right. But while waiting for her bus in the snowy cold she closes her eyes and "Far beyond the moon and stars, Twenty light-years south of Mars, Spins the gently Bunny Planet And the Bunny Queen is Janet." Janet tells Claire to go through a door for the "day that should have been." Claire is transported to the summer and hears her mother telling her to pick her some beans, peas and a ripe tomato. She finds a big, red, ripe tomato and "It smells of rain and steamy earth and hot June sun." She gives it to her mother and then watches her mother cook. "I've made you First Tomato soup because I love you so." 
As I read this book to my girls it makes me long for those tiny yellow flowers on my lush green tomato plants to produce some wonderful fruit for the taking! I can picture Emma eating all of our grape tomatoes before anyone even gets one!
We love this book and I love asking the girls what their perfect day would be if they were transported to Bunny Planet. Emy always says "being in the garden with my momma" (melt my heart) and last time Isy said "us getting to cook together". My favorite illustration in this book is when Claire is looking at her mother cooking. You can see the admiration in her eyes and the love for her mother with that one picture.
If you enjoy this tale there are two other bunny planet books from Rosemary Wells worth checking out too!
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