This week, we loaded up a the library with nine books. Oy. I think we overdid it because I don’t know where they all are right now (by the way, the one that’s ripped was ripped before we brought it home, I swear). So we have two winners, but I’m going to use my official Mom license and hand one the Drake Top Tot Book Award. It’s Anna Dewdney’s stab at a book about manners called Nobunny’s Perfect, and it’s hands-down the cutest one I’ve come across. We love Anna Dewdney for her Llama Llama stories, and they’re rarely available at the library, so we took the leap of faith with this non-llama choice, and it paid off.

My 4- and 2-year-old were huddled around me pointing to bunnies and chattering about them so much I could barely get through a page. The draw? The bunnies have big-time personality: They’re mad and sad and nasty and kind and apologetic, and it all shows in Dewdney’s simple and inviting illustrations. She actually includes a drawing of one bunny spitting out his carrots—and it looks exactly like my 2-year-old when she spits food out right splat in front of her at the table or anywhere she happens to be eating, really. Gotta love it. But she picked up on this bunny’s bad behavior: “He didn’t like that.” Ah-ha. Teaching moment for me. “Yes, but it’s not OK to spit food out at the table, right?” Silence. At least she was thinking about it.