One Potato Review

Unusual. Why aren’t there more children’s book’s about love? Not puppy love, no, but head-over-heals dark-circles-under-your-eyes infatuation. In its soaring exhilarations and desperate disappointments, this book is reminiscent of William Steig, who also wasn’t shy about commuting between the two. Here’s a mouse (who’s a fisherman) and a bunny (who teaches and dances and paints pictures), plus an honest, even Steig-ian, interest in the details of their work. Here are daydreams, and gifts left on doorsteps, petit and grand jetés, and though these illustrations may seem pitched to younger readers, there is finally nothing unsophisticated about the twists and turns of romance.