Little Jack Rabbit's big blue book

Chapter 2: TO THE GROWN-UPS

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About This Book

A collection of short, illustrated children's stories set in a whimsical animal community where a young rabbit and neighbors encounter everyday adventures and small dramas. Episodes include celebrations, rescues, encounters with predators, circus visits, radio mishaps, and seasonal gatherings, each resolving with gentle humor or mild peril. The narratives use anthropomorphic detail and domestic settings to recreate make-believe play and childhood sensibilities. Individual vignettes are brief and varied, often emphasizing kindness, resourcefulness, and simple moral lessons, and are accompanied by numerous color and black-and-white illustrations that underscore the book's playful tone.

TO THE GROWN-UPS

Come with me, the little latch

Hangs outside the Bramble Patch.

You will find within this book,

If you will but take a look,

All the happy, care-free ways

Of your golden childhood days.

In the Kingdom of Little Animals every child is at home. That a dog can talk to his friends, that a rabbit may wear knickers or a little bird climb up a tiny stair inside a hollow tree trunk seem quite natural.

Every child is willing to take my hand and step over the border into Rabbit Country.

Come, you older ones, turn back the clock. Don’t you long for a moment to be once more in Make-Believe Land? Surely you will if you read the Little Jack Rabbit Books. You again will see yourself in the wistful eyes of the youngster at your knee as he listens to

Yours for a story,

David Cory,

The Jack Rabbit Man.