{"product_id":"bunny-and-clyde-isbn-9781536238198","title":"Bunny and Clyde","description":"\u003cb\u003e“The clever plot is anchored by Bunny and Clyde’s Hollywood gangster-speak, tongue-in-cheek dialogue, and groan-worthy puns, all of which will charm young readers. . . . Delightful.”—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e(starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGet ready for a wild ride with Bunny and Clyde! These by-the-rules buddies, a rabbit and a chipmunk, are sick and tired of being good. For once, they want to know what it’s like to be baddies—rotten to the core! They want thrills and excitement! But to get really good at being bad, they’re going to need some experience\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eWhat if the dastardly duo started returning library books late \u003ci\u003eon purpose\u003c\/i\u003e? Or borrowing markers \u003ci\u003ewithout asking\u003c\/i\u003e? Everyone knows it’s a swift downhill slide from there—as long as there’s an unprotected piggy bank in town! Unless, of course, their best attempts at mastering bad deeds are strangely misconstrued. Author Megan McDonald brings her quick wit and ear for dialogue, matched by Scott Nash’s deft animal characterizations, to a hilarious caper of criminal intentions gone awry.The clever plot is anchored by Bunny and Clyde’s Hollywood gangster-speak, tongue-in-cheek dialogue, and groan-worthy puns, all of which will charm young readers. . . . Being bad is work. Delightful.\u003cbr\u003e—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBunny and Clyde’s schemes—facilitated by bouncy, fast-paced plotting from McDonald (the Judy Moody series) and boldly expressive art from Nash (\u003ci\u003eI’m Afraid Your Teddy Is in the Principal’s Office\u003c\/i\u003e)—prove amusing, and the characters’ independence, alongside their sassy banter, will appeal to young readers.\u003cbr\u003e—Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDo-gooders Bunny and Clyde are fed up with playing nice, so the rabbit and the chipmunk set their sights on being as bad as possible. . . . The stakes are low, the action breezy, and the gentle humor reminiscent of Frog and Toad, making this an excellent next read for lovers of those books. . . . Chapters are nicely episodic for budding readers, and the friends’ shenanigans are perfectly paced within each section, providing quick but useful breathers for those kids just building up to chapter books.\u003cbr\u003e—The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMcDonald, of Judy Moody and Stink fame, is clearly having fun in her new chapter-book series, which is packed with humorous situations, puns, and old-timey gangster slang. The black-and white illustrations lean into the overarching joke that the friends are “goodniks” in spite of themselves. A criminally charming new series for fans of Kara LaReau’s Infamous Ratsos books.\u003cbr\u003e—Booklist\u003cb\u003eMegan McDonald\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the popular Judy Moody and Stink series for older readers and the Judy Moody and Friends series for beginning readers. She has also written many other chapter books and picture books for children. Megan McDonald lives in California.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eScott Nash\u003c\/b\u003e is the creator of the illustrated middle-grade novel \u003ci\u003eThe High-Skies Adventures of Blue Jay the Pirate \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe early reader \u003ci\u003eTuff Fluff\u003c\/i\u003e and is the illustrator of many other children’s books. In 2016, he and Nancy Gibson-Nash founded Illustration Institute. Scott Nash lives on Peaks Island off the coast of Maine.\u003cb\u003e-1-\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e No Good\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBunny and Clyde were tired of being good.\u003cbr\u003e   Every day Maw-Maw kissed Bunny and said, “Be good.” So Bunny was.\u003cbr\u003e   Every day Paw-Paw hugged Clyde and said, “Mind your manners.” So Clyde did.\u003cbr\u003e   Every day at school, their teacher told them, “Raise your hands! Follow directions! Use inside voices!” So they did.\u003cbr\u003e   But Bunny and Clyde were tired of making their beds. They were tired of saying please and thank you. They were tired of keeping burps to themselves.\u003cbr\u003e   They were done playing nice. They were done being told what to do.\u003cbr\u003e   One morning on their way down the sidewalk, Bunny spotted a bubble gum comic. She picked it up. Clyde spotted an old bottle cap. He picked it up. Along came Old Lady Murphy. She patted each of them on the head and said, “What a pair of good little bunnies!”\u003cbr\u003e   Bunny hated being patted on the head. Clyde hated being called a good little bunny. He was a chipmunk!\u003cbr\u003e   “She thinks we’re picking up trash,” said Clyde.\u003cbr\u003e   “She doesn’t even know we’re treasure hunting,” said Bunny.\u003cbr\u003e   And so on that one perfect Minnesota morning, Bunny said to Clyde, “Let’s be bad for once!”\u003cbr\u003e   “Bad to the bone,” said Clyde.\u003cbr\u003e   There was only one problem. Up to now, Bunny and Clyde had always been good. The two goodniks did not have the first clue how to be bad.\u003cbr\u003e   But they did know one thing. When a baffled bunny was looking to learn something, when a curious chipmunk needed information, there was only one place to go.\u003cbr\u003e   “Are you thinking what I’m thinking?” asked Bunny.\u003cbr\u003e   “Are you thinking what I’m thinking?” asked Clyde.\u003cbr\u003e   “To the library!” said Bunny and Clyde at the same time.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e-2-\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e Bad Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bunny and Clyde grabbed their library cards and the i ª reading tote. They hopped on their shiny red tandem bike and pedaled to the library. Racing up the steps and through the big glass door, they found their friend Rowena working at the front desk.\u003cbr\u003e   “Rowena!” said Bunny, sidling up to the counter. “Do you have any, um, bad books?”\u003cbr\u003e   Rowena was loading books onto a cart. “As a famous writer once said, ‘Life is too short for bad books.’ I like to think that the library is full of \u003ci\u003egood\u003c\/i\u003e books.”\u003cbr\u003e   “Just point us to the bad section,” said Bunny. She almost added \u003ci\u003eplease\u003c\/i\u003e but caught herself just in time.\u003cbr\u003e   “Yeah, there must be books with bad stuff somewhere in this joint,” said Clyde.\u003cbr\u003e   Rowena looked stumped. And someone who works in a library is almost never stumped.\u003cbr\u003e   She hemmed and hawed and hawed and hemmed and scratched her head with her wing. “Aha!” she said at last. “Follow me.”\u003cbr\u003e   Rowena led them through the stacks to a row marked 500. “Try the 551s.”\u003cbr\u003e   As soon as Rowena left, Bunny and Clyde pawed through the books on the shelves. Volcanoes! Earthquakes! Hurricanes! Tornadoes!\u003cbr\u003e   “Bad, bad, bad, and bad,” said Bunny.\u003cbr\u003e   “But not the kind of bad we’re looking for,” said Clyde.\u003cbr\u003e   They were about to give up when Clyde noticed mountains of picture books scattered all over the floor of the library’s Young Readers room.\u003cbr\u003e   “What a mess!” said Clyde. \u003cbr\u003e   “These books should be lined up on the shelves,” said Bunny. “Spine out!”\u003cbr\u003e   “Maybe there are bad books somewhere in this mess,” said Clyde.\u003cbr\u003e   Bunny hunted through heaps and heaps of books. Clyde pored over piles and piles of books. “All these books have \u003ci\u003egood\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003elove\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ehugs\u003c\/i\u003e in the titles.”\u003cbr\u003e   “All these books have pink unicorns and sparkly rainbows,” said Bunny.\u003cbr\u003e   Bunny and Clyde dug to the bottom of the biggest pile. At last!\u003cbr\u003e   They took their haul up to the front counter. “Wow!” said Rowena. “You two are my best readers. Let’s see what we have here.”\u003cbr\u003e   Rowena clucked as she checked out their books. “Hmm. Interesting choices. Some bunny’s up to some hijinks,” she said with a twinkle.\u003cbr\u003e   Bunny flushed pink all the way to the tips of her ears. A shifty-eyed Clyde shuffled his feet.\u003cbr\u003e   Bunny hurried to hide the loot in the i ª reading tote. Clyde plunked down five pennies for a bookmark.\u003cbr\u003e   Rowena picked up a penny and studied the back of it. “Hey! This is a whole-wheat penny. These are rare, like a hundred years old. I bet it’s worth a pretty penny!”\u003cbr\u003e   Bunny and Clyde were only half-listening.\u003cbr\u003e   “This is going in my piggy bank at home. You’re welcome to come see it anytime. It’s almost full, but I’m sure I can squeeze in one more.” She pulled a penny from her pocket to replace it.\u003cbr\u003e “Happy reading!” she called, but Bunny and Clyde were already out the door, on their way to being bad.","brand":"Candlewick","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233006629093,"sku":"NP9781536238198","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781536238198.jpg?v=1767723185","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/bunny-and-clyde-isbn-9781536238198","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}