However, as an older and of course therefore a much more critical reader and as someone who also never did encounter I Am a Bunny as a young child (and thus having no fondly nostalgic memories of Ole Risom's text and Richard Scarry's accompanying pictures either), I have to admit that albeit I do consider Nicholas Bunny Rabbit telling us all about his life and what he enjoys doing during the four seasons sweetly tenderly engaging (and that I indeed very much do enjoy and aesthetically admire Richard Scarry's illustrations and their visually magical celebration of spring, summer, autumn, winter and nature in general, even as I do wonder a bit how Nicholas would be able to fit under a fly agaric mushroom to shelter from the rain), I personally have to indeed question why since I am a Bunny clearly is a narrative celebrating nature and the natural world, why Nicholas is then still depicted by Richard Scarry as being clad like a human being and not like a truly natural rabbit just in his fur. Now for the intended age group, for very young children, Ole Risom's 1963 I Am a Bunny might well and totally hit the proverbial sweet spot.
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