The gingerbread rabbit

After a mother makes a gingerbread rabbit to surprise her daughter, the rabbit magically comes to life.

Main Author:	Jarrell, Randall, 1914-1965.
Other Authors:	Williams, Garth (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : HarperCollins, 1996.
Subjects:	Rabbits > Juvenile fiction. Magic > Juvenile fiction. Gingerbread > Juvenile fiction. Mothers and daughters > Juvenile fiction.

Summary:	After a mother makes a gingerbread rabbit to surprise her daughter, the rabbit magically comes to life.
Item Description:	Originally published: New York : Macmillan, 1964.
Physical Description:	55 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
ISBN:	0062050877 0060527684
Author Notes:	Randall Jarrell was born in Nashville, Tennessee on May 6, 1914. He earned a bachelor's and master's degrees from Vanderbilt University. His first book of poetry, Blood from a Stranger, was published in 1942. During World War II, he served with the Army Air Force as a control tower operator. His other books of poetry include Little Friend, Little Friend; Losses; and The Lost World. He won the National Book Award in 1961 for The Woman at the Washington Zoo. In addition to writing poetry, he reviewed it during a brief period spent as poetry editor for The Nation. Poetry and the Age and A Sad Heart at the Supermarket are collections of his essays as a poetry critic. His teaching career included stints at Kenyon College, the University of Texas, Sarah Lawrence College, the University of Illinois, and the University of North Carolina/Greensboro. He also was the 11th Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, a position that now bears the title Poet Laureate. He was hit by a car in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and died in October 14, 1965 at the age of 51. (Bowker Author Biography)