Review: NOT Suitable for Children
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 09 9, 2012
"Bunny Battles: A Very Funny Book for Kids" by Aidan Evans is, as it states in the title, a book. However, the entire premise of said book is about alien bunnys attacking humans, while the army bombed them, turning them into chocolate bunnys. The humans then began to eat them. Meanwhile, more alien bunnys resumed the attack and more fighting ensued. An error inside the alien ship created a "big, giant, nasty terror-bunny", which then began eating the people and the other bunnys.As the army bombed it, the BGNTB ate the bombs, and grew even larger. Next, a "real" UFO flew by, shooting the BGNTB with a ray that turned it into a huge pink lump of sugar-coated marshmallow. The cannibalism resumed, with humans and bunnys alike having a "good meal of toasted marshmallows" before going to bed. I also believe the picture of a rather crazed, lunatic rabbit on the cover could be conducive to nightmares.I agree with the statement in the title that this is a book. I will leave it to you to decide if the book's premise qualifies as "very funny" or "for kids". After all, they're YOUR kids we're talking about here. Personally, I don't believe it is appropriate or necessary to teach young children about UFO attacks, bombings, cannibalism, or even the excessive consumption of sugar-coated marshmallows and chocolate. We especially don't need to teach them that toasted pink sugar-coated marshmallows constitute a "good meal". Too many obese, pre-diabetic American kids  already believe that.Finally, we certainly don't need to be causing them to have terrifying dreams about big, giant, nasty terror-bunnys eating them... unless you ENJOY getting up at 2:00AM to comfort a screaming child. If your young children already sleep with a night-light to ward off the monster in the closet, why would you want to do anything to fill their little heads with more fear?I'm really not out of touch with reality. I realize children will be exposed to all of the above eventually. Simply watching the evening news should give them nightmares. Fortunately, though, most young children do not watch the evening news. My personal recommendation would be to not provide this book to a young child. Older children? Maybe not such a big deal.You are, of course, well within your rights to dispute my recommendation, write me off as some kind of nutcase who forgot to take his meds today, and go ahead and buy the book. You are even entitled to write your own review of the book, if you wish. In fact, I would encourage you to do so. But to the extent I can control it, my grandchildren will not be reading this book, nor will they have it read to them.This concludes my review.