This second book in the I Believe Bunny Series, continues the series' message of morals with some Christian influences. Although the book does open with a scripture and two references to God, the overall message of the book is about sharing and friendship, which moves through and beyond any religious or non-religious identification. The story is presented through short sentences and rhyming couplets, which are entertaining and easy for your child to follow.

Rhyming is littered throughout this story, contributing to a steady cadence; as you read about bright butterflies, flower-filled trees, and meet characters like the I Believe Bunny and Maggie Magpie. The pictures are drawn and painted with watercolors in pretty pastels of varying range. The nature scenes are filled with flowers, trees, vines, dandelions, and pinecones, as well as cute cartoon versions of animals your little one will recognize; a bunny, mouse, skunk, raccoon, squirrel, and bird.

The characters each have dialogue providing a great way for you to add entertainment to the book for your little one - assigning distinctive voices for each of the characters. After a few reads, your child may even want to do the voice of their favorite character. Sharing With You also provides a wonderful segue into speaking with your child about the importance and good feelings associated with sharing with friends. Perhaps your little one can identify with Bunny, who originally doesn't want to share his shiny rocks because they are his favorite. Does your child have a toy that they covet and don't like to share? You can point out how kind it is of Little Mouse to share his favorite flower with Bunny, and how Squirrel sacrifices his shiny ring to Maggie Magpie just to get Bunny back one of his favorite rocks. Squirrel tells Bunny, "You mean more to me than a bright, shiny ring." Bunny - and hopefully readers - ultimately learns the valuable lesson that friendship is more important than material objects.

After reading this story to my three-year-old friend, Sam, I asked him if he ever shares anything. He couldn't think of anything right away, so he asked me to go first. I told him that I recently shared my dessert with my husband. Sam looked at me incredulously, "Really? What was it?!" When he found out it was a piece of cake, he seemed even more impressed. Then it was Sam's turn again; he closed his eyes to think for a moment. A big smile spread across his face and his eyes popped open, "Oh yeah! I share my books with you!" It was my turn to be impressed.

--Audra

Tish Rabe is a children's book author who has written over 85 children's books including titles for Sesame Street, Disney, Blue's Clues, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Bear in the Big Blue House and Curious George. In 1996 she began writing The Cat in the Hat's Learning Library, a series of non-fiction science books for early readers with over 3 million copies sold to date. Her book, "My Oh My- a Butterfly!" was named by the Bank Street College of Education as one of the 40 best books for children in 2007.

As both a songwriter and music producer she has written children's songs that have been broadcast on PBS Kids, Fox, Nickelodeon and HBO Family. For the last three years she has been visiting elementary schools to help kids get excited about reading and writing.