Betty Bunny Didn't Do It
Written by Michael B. Kaplan
Illustrated by Stephane Jorisch
2013
978-0-8037-3858-4
This is the story of Betty Bunny, a handful of a young, precocious girl who often gets into trouble. When nobody in her house has time to play with her, Betty Bunny finds trouble by accidentally breaking a lamp. When her brothers and sisters ask her what happened, Betty Bunny tells a lie. The story attempts to illustrate how Betty Bunny learns that telling lies is wrong.
Pros: The artwork is very good, with cute bunnies and a cool, modern edge to the characters.
Cons: I felt that the morality lesson against lying was confusing and gave mixed signals on lying where a sharp line should have been drawn. The very last page of the book is supposed to be humorous, but comes off as cancelling out the lesson. Books about telling the truth are welcome in children's literature, but BBDDI could have been polished a bit more, for my tastes.
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