It's also "Tail Two," which means there was a first Leo book.which I know I've read at some point but never owned, so I don't remember it at all. It's intended to be a message about how you can be both cute AND brave, which is theoretically great but not necessarily conveyed all that well here. Everyone (including the owl-teacher) laughs at him when he describes himself as "brave" when he should be saying "fluffy or cute." Leo runs off in tears, then eventually comes back to save them all from a forest fire, because he's both (a) brave and (b) small enough to get low to the ground and see under the smoke. Leo's unhappy because he's a small, cute, fluffy bunny and he was to be big and tough like a tiger. None of the other illustrations stand out, though, and I'm not even completely sure what the moral of the story's supposed to be.
There's one cute illustration, where Leo tries to look "tough" in the mirror.
The art isn't as exceptional as James's best work, and the story is fairly thin and feels even more quickly wrapped up than usual. It's not bad and not great - it's just somewhere in the "average, largely forgettable" category. This book was never one of my favorites as a child. Fortunately, I guess Past Me had thought ahead a little, since they were still sitting in the trunk of my car, instead of joining the library donation pile from the summer. I'd thinned out my Serendipity books already, then slightly regretted getting rid of them before I added actual reviews to remind myself why I'd chosen to let go of certain ones.
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