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Discuss what was making rabbit so scared. How did it help him in the end? 

Talk with a friend about what you do when you are scared.

Act out the story.

Learn nature words such as rock, tree, lake, forest, rabbit and shadow to be able to understand and talk about the story.

Discuss what was making rabbit so scared. How did it help him in the end? 

What do you do when you are scared? Make a class list. 

The Dark

Mots-clés

Picture book , fear , overcoming fears , rabbits , shadows , wolves

Commentaire descriptif

This sweet and clever story addresses the issue of fears, and whether they are warranted or not. Rabbit is unfamiliar with his shadow, a.k.a. Black Rabbit. He tries to run from it by hiding behind a tree and swimming across a river. But these efforts don’t deter the shadow for long. It keeps coming back. Straightforward sentences, one or two per page, make the book approachable for less confident readers: “Rabbit began to run again, faster than he had ever run before—straight into the deep dark, wood.” The distinction between fear and danger will be clear for children to see. Funny and stylish illustrations have tremendous appeal. Rabbit is simply rendered in a few lines of ink, but his range of expression will delight readers. They are sure to relate to the series of little sketches depicting Rabbit’s tumble—this time while running from a real wolf. Luckily, out in the sun again, Black Rabbit returns and frightens the wolf away. “Rabbit smiled, and somehow he knew the Black Rabbit was smiling back.”