This book and I did not get off to a good start. For Heaven's sake, a book about children's picture books containing seven grey and grainy illustrations printed straight onto the page, made worst by being printed on paper soon to be described in second-hand booksellers' catalogues as "cheap quality paper, tanned as usual". ... In truth, Fierce Bad Rabbits is not really the book a student of children's illustration would want it to be. It is more of a memoir of the author's childhood (fair enough; the love of illustration starts from there) and her happy relationship with her father. It purports to be a history of picture books, but there are far, far too many gaps. Admittedly one cannot expect this author (born in 1978) to have tasted all of these fruits, but no Arthur Rackham, no Edward Dulac, no Kathleen Hale, no L. Leslie Brooke, no Posy Simmonds, no Norman Lindsay (The Magic Pudding) only a passing reference to Quentin Blake, no Kes Gray and Jim Field (their Oi Frog!/Oi Cat! etc., possibly too late for inclusion)? - oh, what joys Ms Pollard has yet to discover, with or without her children.