Tops and Bottoms

Tops & Bottoms is a children’s picture book by Janet Stevens that tells a folktale-style story about a clever rabbit who outwits a lazy bear through a partnership in farming. The book is presented as a hardcover title and is identified as a Caldecott Honor picture book. It was published by Clarion Books and is associated with the ISBN-13 9780152928513. The story uses humor and repeated narrative patterns to show how the rabbits negotiate a sharecropping arrangement: the bear gets the “tops” of crops while the rabbits keep the “bottoms,” and the rabbits use intelligence and planning to turn the arrangement to their advantage. The book is widely used for young readers, with retailer metadata listing ages 4–8 and suggesting its placement in children’s literature for early elementary grades. Janet Stevens is credited as the author, and the title is also described in retailer listings as a folktale about trickery and hard work. The edition shown in the available retail data is hardcover, and the item is sold through major bookstore channels under the same ISBN. This ISBN matches the same title across the provided sources, confirming that the book is Tops & Bottoms by Janet Stevens and not a different edition or work.