BETTY BUNNY LOVES CHOCOLATE CAKE

Oh, how Betty Bunny comes to love the taste of chocolate cake! She can think of nothing else—certainly not the fact that she will need to eat a healthy dinner before she can have a piece or that a piece of cake may not fare well during the school day tucked in her pocket. Katherine Kellgren’s elegant voice may be a bit out of place amid the rough give-and-take of the bunny family, but she uses it to heighten the drama and individualize the characters. As Betty, she sounds imperious and prone to tantrums; as Betty’s older brother, mocking; and as Betty’s mother, authoritative. Kellgren draws out important phrases: “I can’t belie-e-e-ve you put cake in your pocket.” A.R. 2014 Audies Finalist © AudioFile 2013, Portland, Maine [Published: JANUARY 2013]