Bibliographic record
Abstract
Reviewed by: Mr. and Mrs. Bunny—Detectives Extraordinaire! Jeannette Hulick Horvath, Polly . Mr. and Mrs. Bunny—Detectives Extraordinaire!; illus. by Sophie Blackall. Schwartz & Wade, 2012. [256p]. Library ed. ISBN 978-0-375-96755-9 $19.99 Trade ed. ISBN 978-0-375-86755-2 $16.99 E-book ed. ISBN 978-0-375-89827-3 $10.99 Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 4-6. Raised by hapless hippie parents on a small island off the coast of Vancouver Island, middle-schooler Madeline has learned to be resourceful, a skill upon which she calls when her parents are kidnapped by foxes who want a bunch of coded recipes (for rabbit products and by-products) decoded by Madeline's elusive uncle Runyon, a code-savvy spy. Madeline first seeks out Runyon herself, but he suddenly falls into a coma, so she turns for help to a pair of fedora-wearing rabbits, taking them for detectives. Mr. and Mrs. Bunny are only too happy to assist, albeit in an extremely [End Page 355] roundabout way (confrontations with a code-cracking marmot, bunny-hat club meetings, the bunny hound-patrol, and a pair of purple platform disco shoes are involved), and a happy ending is had by almost all. This is about style as much as substance, so don't expect a speedy pace to the solution of the mystery, but those willing to suspend disbelief and wander along this trippy, zigzag path will find plenty to amuse and entertain them. Mr. and Mrs. Bunny are very likable individuals, and they, along with the garlic-bread-loving "The Marmot" (who insists on being called "The") and pushy neighbor Mrs. Treaclebunny, are also very funny; when Mrs. Bunny inquires about a house that Mr. Bunny has just rashly purchased, he replies, "Well, no place is marmot-free, Mrs. Bunny. Let us not dwell in fools' paradises." Blackall's attractive monochromatic illustrations have a cozy and quirky sensibility that suit the text's tone. A skillful reader-aloud will be able to make the most of this for a broader audience, while lovers of absurdity and talking animals will fare best with it among independent readers. Copyright © 2012 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.075 | 0.044 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".