- Rabbit Hill
Infobox Book
name = Rabbit Hill
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author = Robert Lawson
illustrator = Robert Lawson
cover_artist = Robert Lawson
country =United States
language = English
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genre = Children novel
publisher = The Viking Press
release_date =1944
media_type =Hardcover ,paperback
pages = 127 pp
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followed_by =The Tough Winter "Rabbit Hill" is a novel by Robert Lawson that won the
Newbery Medal for excellence in Americanchildren's literature in1945 .Plot introduction
The story takes place in an area called Rabbit Hill. The animal inhabitants are suffering as the house nearby has been abandoned for several years and the untended gardens have withered to nothing. Now a new family is moving in to the house. Are they hunters, or friendly gardeners who will share their crops with the animals?
Literary significance & criticism
Printings of the book beginning in the 1970s and continuing today have removed the character Sulphronia, the new occupants' cook. This was done because she was originally depicted as an
African American stereotype . ["Newbery and Caldecott Medal and Honor Books, an Annotated Bibliography", Linda Kauffman Peterson, Marilyn Leathers Solt, 1982, G.K. Hall & Co.]Film and Television
"Little Georgie of Rabbit Hill" was a 1967 television adaptation for "NBC Children's Theatre".
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