Publisher Annotation: Gregory Maguire turns his trademark wit and wisdom to an animal adventure about growing up, moving on, and finding community. When Papa doesn't return from a nocturnal honey-gathering expedition, Cress holds out hope, but her mother assumes the worst. It's a dangerous world for rabbits, after all. Mama moves what's left of the Watercress family to the basement unit of the Broken Arms, a run-down apartment oak with a suspect owl...

Over the protests of Owl, a narrator introduces an alphabet consisting entirely of rabbits.

With gentle eyes, alert ears, and white-flashed tail, a small furry body hops disarmingly into our affections. Underground, in sand dune, hedgerow, or on clifftop, the secrets of rabbit society at peace and war are revealed.

The story of a rabbit's exhausting efforts to paint a picture presents the letters of the alphabet.

A frog fishing from his lily pad boat does not catch any fish, but one catches him.

Sunny the bunny is finding it hard to say goodbye to home before she leaves for sleepaway camp. When she decides to try new things at camp, Sunny discovers tha tnew things can be fun.