Lunch Bunnies

Author/Illustrator: Kathryn Lasky/Marylin Hafner

About the Author:
http://www.kathrynlasky.com/KK/About.html
Kathryn Lasky was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. She has one older sister named Martha and their family was Jewish. She never enjoyed school but she went to the University of Michigan and got many A's. She married Chris Knight whom she met at her second job. After marrying Chris, her parents gave them a sailboat and they sailed across the Atlantic Ocean. When they came back she wrote her first children's book and had her first child Max. Five years later she had her daughter Meribah and she now lives in Cambridge.

Genre: Fiction
Grade Level: K-1
Theme: Helping Others

Synopsis:
This story is about a bunny who is nervous about going to school and having lunch. He practices the night before carrying his tray to the table. His older brother tries to make him nervous by saying that they make you clean up your mess and the food is all mystery goosh. Clyde worries that he will drop his tray or make a mistake. The next day he makes a friend before lunch and stands in line with her. She ends up slipping on juice and spills her Jell-O all over the floor but the rest of her food stays on the tray. Clyde helps Rosemary pick up her Jell-O and the lunch lady comes to help them and gets Rosemary a new container of Jell-O. Gloria, the lunch lady yells at the older kids who are laughing and they stop! Rosemary and Clyde become friends and they forget all their worries!

Pre Reading Activity:

Activity:

Have the class look at the cover of the book and predict what might happen.

Post Reading Activity:

Activity:

After reading the story, have the students draw a picture of how they felt the first day of school.

Reflection:

I think this is a cute book and good to use on the first day of school with young children. The teachers know how the lunchroom works and will be able to tell the students that they have nothing to worry about when they go to lunch. This book also is good because some students might be nervous on their first day of school and this book will make all their worries go away especially when they see lunch is not that bad after all!