Book rabbit hill5/30/2023 ![]() In a short while, Georgie is released - healed - and can tell and show his family and friends that the New People have no intention of hurting them, and have made a place where they may all always find food and water, overseen by a statue of Saint Francis and the inscription "There Is Enough For All " Suspicion, fear, and hate - personified in the elderly rabbit Uncle Ananias, and led by him when Georgie was injured and taken into the House - lead to the ravaging of the House's garden and grounds by his family and their friends. The moral intent becomes clear when reading the story with those in mind. ![]() ![]() The book was written at the end of World War II when racial integration and providing aid to the war-torn countries of Europe were on everyone's minds. "New Folks" then move into the house: Are they hunters, or friendly gardeners who will provide for the animals? The animal inhabitants are suffering as the house nearby has been abandoned for several years and the untended garden, the animals' source of food, has withered to nothing. ![]() The story takes place in the countryside near Westport, Connecticut. In 1954 he wrote a sequel, The Tough Winter. Rabbit Hill is a children's novel by Robert Lawson that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1945. ![]()
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