First Tomato: A Voyage to the Bunny Planet

What in the world did I just read?? SO this bunny has a bad day, but suddenly everything is fixed by her daydreaming? I DON'T BELIEVE IT!!!! Sure, daydreaming is therapeutic, but when LUNCH is a dreadful activity daydreaming just doesn't seem to be a fix-all thing.

Also, who would dream of TOMATOES????? I understand castles, outer space, queens...land of candy and chocolate...but tomatoes? Sorry Ms. Wells. I'm just not buying it. =|

Claire, a bunny, had a bad day at school and needed a visit to the Bunny Planet:

"Far beyond the moon and stars,
Twenty light-years south of Mars,
Spins the gentle Bunny Planet,
And the Bunny Queen is Janet."

The Bunny Queen gives Claire "the day that should have been." The ending is a bit ontologically confusing, even for an adult, but it connotes happiness, so all is well, and the illustrations are adorable.

(JAF)

I read and reread this. And read the other reviews. And I still don't get it. Why is this child waiting for the bus in the dark all alone? How does a daydream come real in the winter? Or if it doesn't, then wtf did actually happen?

Unrated because I'm sure I'm missing something. We can trust that Wells meant something. And that even the most awful book doesn't get published *just* because of the reputation of the author. Please read it and explain....

I really wasn't sure what to make of this book or how to explain it to my son. I think he was feeling pretty ambivalent about it too. At some level it's sort of cute and so are the illustrations, but at the same time it's a sad story, even bordering on "disturbing".

I'm still looking to see whether on repeated readings it will win us over ...

I did not really like First Tomato: Voyage to the Bunny Planet Book. I thought it would be hard for younger children to follow. I even had to read it twice to get the full meaning of the plot.

When Claire has a bad day in winter, she dreams of visiting the Bunny Planet and picking vegetables from the summer garden, including the first tomato. She exhibits self-control by not eating the tomato she so badly wants because her mother needs it to cook.

This is a great book for K-1 grade. It teaches about self-control and imagination. www.rosemarywells.com

The First Tomato A Voyage To The Bunny Planet by Rosemary Wells is a fiction story. Its a story about a rabbit named Claire that tends to be having a bad day and nothing is going right. She decides to go to her dream world called Bunny Planet and get away from everything for a little while. She goes into the garden and picks a tomato out for her mother. She really wants the tomato for herself but she saves it for her mother. Its really big and ripe. Then, she finaly takes it to her mother and she fixes "First Tomato Soup" for Claire.