Mother Bunny appears as a fisherman, a mountain climber, a gardener, a tree, a cloud, a trapeze walker, and finally the mother herself. Synopsis Ī little bunny tells his mother that he is going to run away, becoming variously a fish, a rock on a mountain, a crocus in a hidden garden, a bird, a sailboat, a circus acrobat, and finally a little boy, until he resigns himself to stay where he is and remain her little bunny. The special is narrated by Tracee Ellis Ross. Īn animated special based on the book was released on HBO Max on March 25, 2021. The three books have been published together as a collection titled Over the Moon. A copy of The Runaway Bunny appears in Goodnight Moon, as does the illustration of the mother fishing for the bunny child. The picture of a cow jumping over the moon, which features prominently in Goodnight Moon, first appeared in The Runaway Bunny. This book is the first in Brown and Hurd's "classic series," which also includes Goodnight Moon and My World. His mother, however, tells him that "if you run away, I will run after you." The plot deals with a small rabbit, who wants to run away. The stark difference between these two styles just isn't attractive at all and, because a huge part of childrens' books is the illustrations, the board book edition of The Runaway Bunny just doesn't cut it.The Runaway Bunny is a 1942 picture book written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd. On the pages where there is text, the drawings are pleasant black and white drawings where there is no text, the illustrations are almost all gaudily colored and badly drawn (with one exception, when the mother bunny is the tree that the baby bunny as a bird flies home to). So it isn't the freaked out parents that make me two-star this book. Make "If you run away, I will run after you." sound like a threat and you've changed the entire sense of the book. It's the person who reads the book and the tone they use that makes the difference. That's actually a fairly comforting idea. It is extraordinarily unlikely that the target age group of 0-3 is going to be freaked out by the idea that Mommy will do anything and go anywhere to keep you safe. There is a little of the stalker-mom in the mother bunny, but we're talking about (a) little kids and (b) bunnies. As he plans to become various things to hide from her, she is equally imaginative in the ways she will find him. I'd give it 2 1/2 stars but can't, so 2 it is.Ī nameless little bunny says he's going to run away and his mother tells him she will follow him. Largely loved, it does have good points, but it's hardly the outstanding story I'd expected. ISBN 0061074292 - I'm kind of surprised to find myself mostly up the middle on this book.
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