About book E. Aster Bunnymund And The Battle Of The Warrior Eggs At The Earth's Core (2012)
E. Aster Bunnymund is the last Pooka. Pooka's were the ones who are responsible for creating the earth. North and Katherine must get to the earth's core to save their friends from Pitch. However, the only person that can get them there is E. Aster Bunnymund, and he has no desire to help them. He believes humans are no good and are only capable of destruction, much like they did when they destroyed his race during the Golden Age. This book has been part of my author study on WIlliam Joyce and our genre study on sci-fi/fantasy. Students work in groups to read the book and identify the main character's traits and how those traits change over the course of the book. I already wrote a rather lengthy review of book 1 in this series so I'll try to skip over that. I will repeat that this is a chapterbook series principally targeted at very young children, so don't expect too much if you're a "Rise of the Guardians" fan over the age of nine. If you'd like some decent film-related "Rise of the Guardians" backstory, go read Rufftoon's webcomics (just google Rufftoon, go to her deviantart gallery and look at her "Rise of the Guardians" folder). They're really wonderful.If you like the Australian, boomerang-throwing, heavily tattooed, Easter-obsessed Bunny you saw in the film, then put the book down and go see him again. He's not around here and I doubt he'll show up any time soon. It's also heavily implied in the film that Bunny was actually born as a bunny and simply became magically endowed somewhere along the line, becoming the warrior he is throughout much of the film (or at least that's my interpretation). Bunnymund in the book is at once a darker and far more neutral character than that in the films. He's far wiser (perhaps THE wisest character in the universe) and powerful and is even more obsessed with eggs than Bunny is.The series continues with its playful rewrites of history and 'science'. The Earth was apparently egg-shaped at one point and eggs are, for some reason, the most perfect shape in existence. There's no explanation for why a rabbit-like creature would obsess over eggs (ignoring the rather interesting actual history behind the connection between rabbits, eggs and Easter) other than that he simply does. He's also not really a rabbit. He's some sort of 'alien' or ancestor creature that's been on Earth since long before anything else.If you're still waiting for Jack Frost to show up at some point, you'll have to wait a bit longer. If I recall correctly, he's hinted at near the end of book 4, but even then he still hasn't shown up. He's not Nightlight in disguise or a later transformation of Nightlight so far as I am aware. But he still won't show up here. The next book is Tooth's, though and we get to learn more about Pitch in book 4 so don't give up here if you've gotten this far! Just read through the rather silly novel and keep going.
Do You like book E. Aster Bunnymund And The Battle Of The Warrior Eggs At The Earth's Core (2012)?
Just as good as book one. Can't wait for the rest!
—anashuya
William Joyce is fabulous! Onto the next one...
—dlwhite112233
