The Hare Who Wouldn't Share
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There was once a hare who did NOT like to share.
What is the point of sharing? thinks the hare.
The more I give away the less there is for ME.
But even the hare can appreciate the lovingly tended carrot patch created by the neighbouring rabbits. So, when a huge boar threatens to destroy the patch, will this hare come to see that giving things up for others means that you can gain so very much MORE of the most important things in life?
• A brilliant book to encourage conversations about sharing and community
• Stunning artwork from the highly-acclaimed illustrator of I'm Sticking with You and The Duck Who Didn't Like Water
• A warm hug of an ending!
Praise for Steve Small:
"A pure splash of joy" - Daily Mail on The Duck Who Didn't Like Water
"Comical, bold ... tender" - The Sunday Times on I'm Sticking with You
Also by Steve Small:
The Duck Who Didn't Like Water
Wellington's Big Day Out
Brave Litle Bear
With Smriti Halls:
I'm Sticking with You
I'm Sticking with You Too
Let's Stick Together
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In one word—"crotchety"—Small (Brave Little Bear) aptly describes the big, orange, scowling Hare who stars in this visually sumptuous fable. When a rabbit family moves into the woods, all the other animals help fill their cupboard except Hare, who won't part with a single one of his beloved turnips. The rabbits later invite him to a neighborly party, and Hare wonders, "Why would these rabbits give away so much of something they had worked so hard for when they had so little?" Then the protagonist encounters Boar heading to eat the rabbits' carrot crops, and the way the porcine creature looms over Hare and steals his turnips seems to rout the crotchetiness: Hare feels small, vulnerable, and immediately empathic to the rabbits' pending plight. Hare helps the family hide their carrots, and in yet another striking image, huddles with them in the darkness of their burrow and cautions "Shhh..." as Boar's snout protrudes through the entry. Hare's selflessness costs him his entire turnip crop, but his compensation is considerable: he is embraced, for the first time, by the entire forest community—and learns to embrace others in return. Ages 4–8.
