Product Description

Honey Bunny Funnybunny has lots and lots and lots of money. Some she saves, some she spends on herself, and some she spends on her friends. In this delightful rhyming book about spending and saving, the bear gets a chair, the fly gets some pie and, of course, the fox gets some socks.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #392135 in Books
• Published on: 2006-01-24
• Released on: 2006-01-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 36 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780375833700
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From School Library Journal
PreSchool-Grade 1–Thrifty shes not, but no one is more generous than Honey Bunny. After gathering lots and lots of cash in her piggy bank, she goes on a shopping spree–first buying a few items for herself, then acquiring gifts for her friends and family. She purchases a chair for the bear, a trunk for the skunk, And oh, what luck/for the duck!/She spent a buck/and got a truck!. Believe it or not, when she is done, she still has some money left to save. With its light and bouncy text and colorful and humorous cartoons, this book is a fun choice. The rhyming words and picture clues make it easy to decipher. Sure to be a winner among first-time readers.–Anne Knickerbocker, formerly at Cedar Brook Elementary School, Houston, TX
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From Booklist
PreS-K. With lots of money in her piggy bank, Honey Bunny likes to count it and save more, but she also likes to shop--for herself and for her many friends. "She buys a wig for the pig. / She buys a coat for the goat." Preschoolers will enjoy the simple, funny rhyme and the pictures of the huge-eared rabbit, the blissful bear in his chair, the skunk in a trunk, and more. Part of the Bright and Early easy reading series, this book is a sweet fantasy about a small child with power--the power to be generous. Hazel Rochman
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Customer Reviews

NOT about judicious money management!
Although this book is very cute, it does not teach money management as you might assume. On the first page or two, Honey Bunny receives money from a few sources, then proceeds to spend and spend and spend and spend until the very last page, in which she magically still has money left to save. So although the book does -mention- the word savings, it presents it in a context of "spend as much as you want, and there will be plenty left over later."

just ok
Bought book b/c reviews looked like it would be a nice story to teach value of money. Story is about a bunny that spends all her money on a treat for her then her family and friends. Did not really give the point I had noped. Cute rhymes that the kids like but I had different expectations. Oh well.

Never too young
As the father of a three-year old learning to read, I was completely dismayed at the endless number of inane, cutesy, and vapid titles targeted towards pre-school readers. How can we expect books about anthropomorphized talking animals and insects to teach our children anything useful about the world we live in? Last time I checked, mother hens did not wear aprons, ladybugs did not dispense homey pearls of wisdom, and frogs did not yearn for friendship from other species. I know many people believe such stories feed the imagination, encourage creativity, etc., but then so do Ulysses and Also sprach Zarathustra, and few would recommend teaching Joyce or Nietzsche to pre-schoolers. Considering my biases, I thought "Money, Money, Honey Bunny!" was simply another superfluous exercise in puerile nonsense, but I was pleasantly mistaken.

Ms. Sadler must be a free-market capitalist at heart, for she has managed to capture its virtues in this simple tale of commerce, goods, and the pleasures of free trade. Honey Bunny, the title character, knows the value of saving. More important, however, she knows that money is not an end unto itself, but a means of trading goods and services using a common currency, allowing for wealth to spread from buyer to seller to manufacturer to investor and so on in the glorious cycle of money. How does she show this? Not with models of monetary theory, or lectures on microeconomics, but by earning, saving, judiciously spending, and then keeping a portion to invest in her own future. Ms. Sadler tells Honey Bunny's story in bouncy, rhyming couplets, accompanied by clear, colorful and often humorous illustrations by Mr. Bollen. My child delights in declaiming the catchy, singsongy verse and laughs at the cartoons, and I declaim and laugh with him. He thinks he is merely enjoying the simple tale of a cartoon rabbit, but I know that the seeds of free-market capitalism are being sown, watered, and grown within my progeny, guaranteeing his future prosperity and the prosperity of all in the world economy.