Doctor Rabbit Author:Jan Wahl The hush of a Hospital Zone sweeps across the spacious, spice-colored pages and the solemn syllables foretell that Doctor Rabbit, so chosen because he is the quickest of all the animals, will take his duties seriously. He pours over books, samples home remedies, practices taking pulses and listening to heartbeats (in the rump?) with nurse Miss M... more »ouse, before he is ready for his first patients; and then he is always on duty, hardly sleeping, trudging through the snow, streaking when a baby's to be born, until. . . ""SORRY"" the sign says, ""THE DOCTOR IS SICK."" Each of the animals brings a flower to his bedside, telling him ""Don't talk, just rest,"" and, reassured, tiptoeing away. The animals' ills are treated in rhyme but otherwise this is gentle and grave, as soothing -- and, be it admitted, as loose-flowing -- as a restorative syrup.« less