Mog And Bunny by Judith Kerr
Published 2005 · 32 pages · 8,800 words · about 2 hours at an average pace · Children's Literature
How hard is Mog And Bunny to read?
Mog And Bunny scores 90 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it very challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 100 out of 100
- A picture book for ages 5 to 6 uses plain everyday words, in the register of Judy Blume's youngest-reader fiction or simpler. At about 8,800 words listed, it is a short text for early readers.
- Sentence structure: 100 out of 100
- Sentences in a picture book for young readers stay short and direct, simpler than Anne Frank's diary prose. Little embedding or subordination is expected.
- Abstraction: 12 out of 100
- The story centres on a cat, a toy bunny and a family's decision about throwing it away. It is concrete and domestic, closer to Asterix's plain adventure than to any ideas-driven book.
- Information density: 80 out of 100
- A 32-page picture book with one small situation carries very little to track. It is lighter than Beach Read.
- Narrative indirection: 12 out of 100
- The family's threat and Mog's loyalty to Bunny are plainly shown, so young readers are told what happens and how it feels. Pictures support the action as in Asterix.
- Symbolic density: 100 out of 100
- Bunny stands for a loved companion, but the book works at the literal level of a cat and her toy. Symbolism is minimal.
- Ironic distance: 80 out of 100
- A sincere children's story about loyalty and affection leaves almost no gap between what the text says and what Kerr means. It sits near Judy Blume's sincere voice.
- Resolution withholding: 80 out of 100
- Children's picture books close their small conflicts. Here the family sees how much Mog loves Bunny, which settles the threat.
- Structural complexity: 60 out of 100
- A short, linear picture-book story with a single thread, simpler than a diary or a linear romance.
How Mog And Bunny is regarded
Mog And Bunny holds a literary regard score of 29 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.