PreS-Gr. 2. After rabbit pets Tulip and Snuggle learn how to open their cage, they spend the evenings roaming through their peoples' house. At first they explore human oddities (one particularly humorous scene shows the rabbits scrubbing their front teeth with their owners' toothbrushes). Eventually, ready for new adventures, they begin to tackle lingering household chores. Each night, it's something new--dish washing, furniture polishing, even making a tuna casserole. The mother in the family thinks it's her children who are the helpers; the children guess elves or fairies. Tulip and Snuggle love their secret: They always think magic is done by tiny people. They'd never believe it's really rabbits. And the rabbits love that the family seems to argue less and play with them more. The humor and whimsy are nicely extended in the warm, line-and-watercolor artwork, which the adorable bunnies at work, at play, and, in a final scene, surfing the Internet for carrot-cake recipes. --Gillian Engberg Copyright 2006 Booklist

Two clever pet bunnies escape from their cage every night to clean the house so their young owners will have more playtime during the day. The soft watercolor and pencil illustrations depicting the rabbits doing such chores as folding laundry and washing dishes are a hoot. A chart of vocabulary words from the story is included. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.

PreS-Gr 2-Tulip and Snuggle are Grace and Peter's pet rabbits. One night, Tulip figures out how to open the latch on the cage, and the bunnies begin to explore while their family sleeps. Soon they are secretly completing household jobs, such as sweeping and making tuna casserole. They finish many of the children's chores, giving the siblings more time to play with them. Mother, in a better mood with less work to do, suggests one afternoon that her children let the rabbits out of their cage as "they must be tired of sitting all day." Alternating between full spreads and smaller panels, O'Neill's soft watercolors add moments of humor not present in the text. The last page of the book has suggestions for helping emerging readers and a dense and hard-to-use list of words with consonant blends that appear in the story. The note provides little that would be of much use to parents or educators. This sweet, innocent tale reads like one of the better stories in a child's reading textbook. As a read-aloud, it's not highly memorable, but it will appeal to adults looking for less-edgy picture books with an old-fashioned feel.-Rachel G. Payne, Brooklyn Public Library, NY (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.