A review by katebrarian
Operation Bunny by Sally Gardner

3.0

This book is really adorable. I'd definitely recommend it to kiddos who want to read hilarious magical mystery books!

Coming up is a discussion totally off-topic of the book so I'm going to hide it in a spoiler alert and anyone who is fond of talking about language and political correctness can continue on!

As a side note which has nothing whatsoever to do with the story but everything to do with a single word I found in this book - at one point a character says that something's given him a "gyp" which instantly to my eyes was like, whoa, that's not very culturally sensitive! But in context, not used in the way I've ever heard that slur used in Canada, so I was curious and looked it up. Apparently this is a term used in Britain to mean a small ache or pain, and as far as my cursory research went, is not derived from a derogatory term for Roma people like the meaning I'm familiar with is. So, now it's one of those words that I'm not sure what to do with...is it fair to taint what I'm sure was a perfectly good word with something that is a slur? But I'm all for offending the least amount of people in my everyday speech so I'd probably try to remove it from my vocabulary if it were in there already.