Hare

"Look carefully, / Look still more harefully. / O where, o where is O'Hare?"
Adapted from the verses of 18th-century poet William Cowper, Zoë Greaves's playful and alliterative text for readers and listeners up to 7 follows a hare as he darts through a graveyard, a meadow, a swamp, and not surprisingly a cabbage patch, all depicted with precise naturalistic detail in Leslie Sadleir's softly textured mixedmedia illustrations.
Forming a mini-book of their own, the appendices—written with parents or teachers in mind—trace the folklore and superstitions associated with hares, explain their basic scientific attributes, and answer that perennial question: what's the difference between a hare and a rabbit?