A rabbit hops through a spring morning asking the only question small children ever really ask, which is what it would be like to be something else. As tall as the trees. As still as a rock. Green, like everything around him. Kevin Henkes lets each wonder become a full page of color before the rabbit hops on, and then brings him home to the answer, which is that the best thing to be is the one somebody is waiting for.

Henkes, who won the Caldecott Medal for Kitten's First Full Moon, draws this one in the bright greens, yellows, pinks and purples of a garden that has just turned. The pictures do the imagining out loud: when the rabbit thinks about being tall, he is drawn tall. That is what makes it work for a two year old who cannot follow a plot yet but can absolutely follow a picture.

Thirty four board pages in a sturdy square format, built for hands that are not gentle yet, and one of the standard Easter basket books for a reason. Mouse's First Spring shelves next to it if you are building the basket rather than buying one book.