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    Mr. and Mrs. Bunny--Detectives Extraordinaire!

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    "National Book Award-winner Polly Horvath's latest, a rabbity romp complete with whimsical illustrations and a quirky cast of characters, has both the look and feel of a classic children's book," raves The Washington Post.
    In this hilarious chapter book mystery, meet a girl whose parents have been kidnapped by disreputable foxes, and a pair of detectives that also happen to be bunnies! When Madeline gets home from school one afternoon to discover that her parents have gone missing, she sets off to find them. So begins a once-in-a-lifetime adventure involving a cast of unforgettable characters. There's Mr. and Mrs. Bunny, who drive a smart car, wear fedoras, and hate marmots; the Marmot, who loves garlic bread and is a brilliant translator; and many others. Translated from the Rabbit by Newbery Honor-winning author Polly Horvath, and beautifully illustrated by Sophie Blackall, here is a book that kids will both laugh over and love.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateFeb 14, 2012
    ISBN9780307942647
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    Reviews for Mr. and Mrs. Bunny--Detectives Extraordinaire!

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    • 2/5
      This book will doubtless entertain many innocent children while quietly indoctrinating them into the most conventional possible of lives. Features a fifth-grade girl, Madeleine, whose parents are patently irresponsible hippies, that is, in the author's eyes, hippies are of course irresponsible, lousy parents. The child is forced to take care of them, working as a waitress to support them, while they celebrate solstice and play marimbas. Her parents are soon kidnapped by foxes.When Madeleine meets the bunny detectives, Mr. and Mrs. Bunny, they take care of her and lament about her ridiculous parents. Some of the many conventional ideas the book upholds are, that school is better than homeschooling, that you might not be allowed to go to your graduation if you can't afford to buy the right clothes, the monarchy, strict gender roles, girls should be skinny, lady bunnies will want to parade before the Prince in fancy bonnets, chain restaurants, corporate branding. The support of all these ideas is quite subtle. It is simply assumed that these are eternal truths that everyone accepts. Mrs. Bunny belongs to a hat-making club and cooks. Mr. Bunny drives the car and builds Madeleine a big enough hutch. Mr. Bunny comments about Madeleine having a giant behind entirely too much. They go to Olde Spaghetti Factory and the little one in the bunny town is exactly the same as the one in Madeleine's town, except smaller. For my money, she's a lot better off with the hippies, who at least each her to question authority, but the book is heavily biased towards the bunnies as the better parents. While being able to talk to bunnies is a charming idea, this execution leaves far too much to be desired.
    • 4/5
      After listening to this book I found I liked this book much better than reading. Goofy, you bet. I felt that reading it was like trying to read "I Love Lucy" . You don't get the full effect. The narrator's voices made this story of a girl who with the help of Mr and Mrs Bunny save her parents from foxes has a whole gammet of interesting characters. This book has been on a lot of best books of 2012 lists. After listening to the book, I agree.
    • 5/5
      Madeline has always felt protective of her artistic hippie parents. When they are kidnapped by a nefarious gang of foxes, though, she's not quite sure where to turn. Fortunately for Madeline, Mr. and Mrs. Bunny have recently embarked on a career as private eyes. Will these well-meaning but inexperienced detectives be able to help Maddie rescue her parents?The plot sounds farfetched, I know, but this is a fun (if slightly surreal) read, and there are a lot of one-line zingers that made me giggle. Fans of juvenile literature, particularly Horvath's other works, will probably enjoy this book.
    • 4/5
      This is the improbable story of Madeline, a girl who relies on Mr. and Mrs. Bunny, two amateur bunny sleuths, to help her rescue her clueless hippie parents from the clutches of wily foxes. This fun and cute story is told with deadpan wit, jokes that adults appreciate, and inventive touches (like Mr. Bunny's disco platform shoes that help him reach the pedals of his new car; dimwitted Marmot's love of garlic bread; or the shoes knitted by Mrs. Bunny from used dental floss. The only quibble I had was that the author, who read the story herself, had a distractingly squeaky voice. (This review is of the audio book)
    • 5/5
      This book was simply tons of fun. Madeline lives with her hippie parents, who get kidnapped by foxes so they can learn where their uncle, who's a professional decoder, lives. They need him to decode recipes they have for meals made with bunnies. But the parents are just useless. Madeline tries to get help from her uncle, but he happens to be sick and falls into a coma. This is where the bunnies come in. She meets them just as they've decided to become detectives, and they joyfully offer to take her on as their client. Then it gets really crazy. The characters are all nutty (except for Madeline, who is used to taking care of her flaky parents) and their escapades are ridiculous. Polly Horvath has a wicked sense of humor that will definitely reach parents. This is a great read-aloud book for just that reason.
    • 3/5
      Strange, strange, strange. But fun once I let go of my expectations and gave into the weirdness.
    • 4/5
      When Madeline's parents are kidnapped by nefarious foxes, the young girl, used to taking care of the feckless pair, sets out to rescue them. Appealing first to her Uncle Runyon, one of the top decoders in Canada, and the reason for Flo and Mildred's captivity (the foxes being determined to exchange them for Runyon's services in decoding some recipe cards), Madeline discovers once again that grownups are of little use. It is only when she encounters Mr. and Mrs. Bunny, a leporine couple who have recently taken up detecting, that she finds adults who want to help her, and who can be depended upon. But what can one girl and two bunnies do, against the evil machinations of a crew of foxes...?An immensely entertaining read, Mr. and Mrs. Bunny - Detectives Extraordinaire! had me in stitches on more than one occasion, and only grew more amusing as the story progressed, and I became more familiar with the cast of characters. The eponymous Mr. and Mrs. Bunny are an endearing pair, and their loving quarrels make for any number of charming scenes. Although quite a bit of suspension-of-disbelief is required here, when it comes to the animal societies existing alongside the human one, apparently unnoticed, I ended up really enjoying the parallel structure, and the commentary this afforded on human relationships. The Bunnys' feelings about Madeline's parents, for instance, their outrage that this young girl must protect them rather than the other way around, and their desire to care for her themselves, was quite poignant in light of Flo and Mildred's indifference to so many of her needs. Recommended to young readers who enjoy animal fiction and/or mysteries. As for myself, I am delighted that there is a sequel, Lord and Lady Bunny - Almost Royalty!, which I plan to begin immediately.
    • 5/5
      children's fiction. Clever-ish bunnies in fashionable fedoras play detective to help a human 10-year-old girl, complete with a heaping serving of Horvath's wry humor (bonus: illustrations by Sophie Blackall). This one is definitely on my "New Classics" list. Simply fantastic--give this to fans of Roald Dahl and Trenton Lee Stewart.
    • 5/5
      Mr. and Mrs. Bunny — Detectives Extraordinaire! by Polly Horvath is the story of a pair of rabbits who end up saving Canada from cyber terrorists and rescuing a girl's parents from kidnappers. Meanwhile, all the girl wants to do is save up enough money for white shoes in time for Prince Charles's visit to her school. Instead, though, her parents are missing, her uncle's in a coma and she has to work with two very strange rabbits to put everything to rights!Polly Horvath's books always have a very strong sense of place. Like the Everything on a Waffle books, Mr. and Mrs. Bunny—Detectives Extraordinaire! is set on and near Vancouver Island. Vancouver Island is the largest of a group of islands to the west of Vancouver city and to the north of Port Angeles, Washington. It is only accessible via water or air; there are no bridges! Madeline and her family happen to live on one of the outlier islands, Hornby, but she goes to public school in Nanaimo (a city on the northeast side of the island). I've included a Google map with instructions on how to get from Hornby to Nanaimo, and they comport with Madeline's own description early on in the book. On the outskirts of Cumberland (near where Madeline's ferry lands) Mr. and Mrs. Bunny have moved into their new home in a rabbit city. Why Cumberland — well, it's the home of the Marmot Recovery Centre's Cormox Valley Visitor's Centre. And marmots (and foxes) play a role in mischief that will unite the Bunnies and Madeline. Horvath's books are usually incredibly Canadian but this one is excessively so, and does for Vancouver Island what L.M. Montgomery's books do for Prince Edward Island, Laura Ingalls Wilder's books do for De Smet, South Dakota, or Beverly Cleary's books do for Portland, Oregon. Take for instance, Madeline's parents, Flo and Mildred, are ex-hippies from California. If they're ex-hippies, chances are they're from the Bay Area.Seems far fetched? Nope. Completely possible. Our one night out on the town for a fancy meal in Victoria (the capital of British Columbia) our waiter asks us where we're from. We tell him we're on a car trip from the Bay Area and he goes to explain how he was born in Santa Clara but raised here. I think of his story every time I think of Madeline's. Though I suspect her parents are more trying on a day to day basis than his were!The final piece in this equation is an uncle who is one of Canada's top cryptologists. The foxes have come across a key piece of information for running a rabbit flavored food chain but it's in code. Knowing that the best de-coder lives in the area, they decide to kidnap his family to force them to divulge his address. There's just two small problems: their mastery of human English isn't so hot and Flo and Mildred have no clue where he lives (their minds long since rotted by their alternative lifestyle).What follows is a ridiculous mash up of a typical girl's mystery series and a typical animal fantasy story. Think Nancy Drew teaming up with the animals from The Wind in the Willows. Along with that mashup is threaded some very strong opinions on the monarchy, on parenting, on feminism, commercialism, and the environment.
    • 3/5
      Clever writing and an engaging plot, full of funny details, like the various fox enterprises and rabbit inventions.
      Madeline was a perfectly sensible little girl and her hippie parents were very amusing.
      One thing I absolutely loved about this book were the illustrations, they were just the most darling things! I really wish there had been more of them.

      All in all a very entertaining read for little kids.