Rabbit Paperback – 22 Mar. 2018

My 6 year old enjoys browsing through this book to learn facts about his pets. Colourful and easy to follow guide for children.

This is an excellently written, colourful and well-illustrated 32-page booklet that tells you all you need to know - at an introductory level - about keeping rabbits as pets. There are twelve two-page sections that cover different aspects of rabbits and rabbit-keeping. Each two-page section is illustrated with a minimum of three (and often more) excellent photographs, with several text pieces and captions arranged ‘magazine-style’ across the pages. It is aimed at a younger reader, so it is best considered to be a children’s book, but is equally readable by adults, who will need to answer questions for the very young reader (and exercise judgement as to whether these are suitable pets for the applicant!). Note that rabbits can be house-trained and live indoors with you, can be trained to do tricks like dogs, and are more sociable than cats, but probably not as much as a dog.While it is not a detailed guide, it gives you a good introduction to what you will have to do if you adopt a rabbit as a pet. There is a quiz and a checklist, so you can see how attentive the prospective pet-owner will be to the needs of their pet (and how much work the grown-ups will have to do).The grown-ups will need a more detailed guide in order to actually look after the animals properly, mind you, but this will serve as a good guide for the younger family members.Note that you should keep at least two rabbits, as they are social animals and need the company – and there is apparently a law coming in to force to make it illegal to keep a solitary rabbit.