Spotty

by H.A. Rey and Margret Rey

Book Overview

Tired of being treated differently by his family just because he is spotted and the other rabbits are white, Spotty sets out on his own to seek acceptance. This edition of the original 1940s classic, with its vintage pictures and optimistic ending, offers a story that still needs to be told.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395837367
• ISBN13: 9780395837368
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.1" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 3 years and under
• Grade Range: Preschool and Kindergarten

Customer Reviews

Super cute

This book has the most adorable pictures. The Reys were Jews who fled Nazi Germany and this is a story about being singled out because one isn't blond and blue-eyed (I mean, white and pink eyes - it's about rabbits). A wonderful morality tale. My only complaint is that the Spotty rabbit stuffed toy that they make to go with this book isn't very cute at all. I wish they would make a good version of it as Spotty is such a cool rabbit.

Favorite book found again!

Growing up in the 50's, Spotty was my favorite book (even though I loved my dad's classic children's book, Little Toot, very much too). I have one dog-eared copy but wanted one(s) for my grandchildren. And I found it here!I have spent a life trying to treat everyone the same and not put people into categories by their color, ethnic background, their economic status ... and guess what??? I now realize that I absorbed these values from reading Spotty as a young girl! It tells so gently what it feels like to be a spotted bunny in a family of white bunnies (and ostracized) and how it feels like to be a white bunny in a family of spotted bunnies (also made to feel "different").Do your kids and grandkids a real life-long favor by reading this enjoyable, heart-warming, positive book to them. It changed my life and could change theirs.Linda Gramatky Smith

Daughter loves it!

My daughter, age 4, just loves this book. It is a paragraph book, not a one-liner read-aloud, and adults will find it enjoyable to read to children. The basic story is that Spotty has spots while his siblings don't. He gets left behind, runs away (which I usually don't like to see in stories, but I just correct verbally to express the dangers of and move on), and gets taken in by a family of spotted bunnies who have ostracized their plain bunny just the same as he was an outcast in his family! So, of course, eventually all the bunnies get together and learn that the spots and colors don't really matter and that it's more important to be kind and loving... all told in the warm medium of adorable bunnies which any child would love. It's rather hard to find these days, but worth buying!

A Sweet Tale of Acceptance

Spotty is a dotted, spotted bunny born to a family of white, pink-eyed rabbits. Although Spotty's mother loves him very much, as do all his brothers and sisters, she's afraid Grandpa will not approve of a bunny with brown spots, so she leaves him at home. Spotty becomes despondent and runs away, only to find a family of spotted rabbits with one all-white bunny. The book is a celebration of differences, and teaches children the very important lesson that we are who we are, and nothing can change that, nor should we try. This reaches all levels - differences in attitude to the obvious difference in skin color."Spotty" reaches so much farther than any of the Rey's "Curious George" works, and I highly recommend it for every parent.

An excellent book with superb moral and illustrations.

My siblings and I were raised on this book in the 1950s and 1960s. Seeing it in the movie "You've Got Mail" brought back fond memories. I am now purchasing it for the children in my life. In an era when tolerating differences is at a shortage and sorely needed, no child should grow up without "Spotty".