After reading this luxurious bedtime book, just try to look at a full moon without seeing a pool of butter.
Rabbit, "blinking sleepy eyes," gives up on the moon and "hops into his burrow/ just a little soon" to see the moon come clear of the clouds. As accompaniment to Helen V. Griffith's (Georgia Music) exquisitely paced phrases, Laura Dronzek (White Is for Blueberry) applies acrylic paints like butter frosting across the pages. For "Moonlight slides like butter," we see the movement of the moon's luminous path like a jellyfish moving through the night sky. Stars and comets look like frosted cookies floating in the galaxy, while mountain ranges get a light dusting of golden cream. It "butters every tree/ sucks at twigs and branches/ like a butter bee." And best of all, the moonlight "seeps inside the burrow/ butters Rabbit's dreams," and when he emerges, "spatter[ed]... with moondrops," he sees the moon at last.
A final moonkissed scene combines humor and joy just subtle enough to let little ones drift off to sleep, knowing Rabbit got what he wanted. The rhymes dance off the tongue and the scenes look good enough to eat. --Jennifer M. Brown, children's editor, Shelf Awareness