A modern classic that has captured two generations of readers with the gentle and magical tale of a little bunny who decides to run away...When little bunny tells his mother that he is going to run away he does not imagine that his mother will be trying quite so hard to find him. No matter where he runs, she is always following one step behind him, keeping an ever watchful eye. First published in 1942, The Runaway Bunny has never been out of print in the United States. This new edition brings the timeless spirit of this ...
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A modern classic that has captured two generations of readers with the gentle and magical tale of a little bunny who decides to run away...When little bunny tells his mother that he is going to run away he does not imagine that his mother will be trying quite so hard to find him. No matter where he runs, she is always following one step behind him, keeping an ever watchful eye. First published in 1942, The Runaway Bunny has never been out of print in the United States. This new edition brings the timeless spirit of this classic story back to the modern reader.
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Add this copy of The Runaway Bunny to cart. $1.17, good condition, Sold by Orion Tech rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Arlington, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1942 by HarperCollins.
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Very good. A well-cared-for item that has seen limited use but remains in great condition. The item is complete, unmarked, and undamaged, but may show some limited signs of wear. Item works perfectly. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine is undamaged.
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I usually never take time to write reviews but I had to stand up for this book that I adore when I read the review where somebody said they had to make up reasons why the bunnies were turning themselves into things on the textless pages. The explanation is on each of the pages directly before! And the mother is NOT smothering at all-she merely turns herself into things in the bunny's chosen environments. If she wanted to be contolling, she wouldn't let the bunny go in the first place. Beautiful theme and pictures whether black-and-white or color. Must-have book and beneficial to have during the terrible twos and threes to show a mother always will be there for better or worse. Love, love, love this book!
AnnaLovesBooks
Apr 2, 2009
The Runaway Bunny
ISBN 0061074292 - I'm kind of surprised to find myself mostly up the middle on this book. Largely loved, it does have good points, but it's hardly the outstanding story I'd expected. I'd give it 2 1/2 stars but can't, so 2 it is.
A nameless little bunny says he's going to run away and his mother tells him she will follow him. As he plans to become various things to hide from her, she is equally imaginative in the ways she will find him.
There is a little of the stalker-mom in the mother bunny, but we're talking about (a) little kids and (b) bunnies. 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. That's actually a fairly comforting idea. It's the person who reads the book and the tone they use that makes the difference. Make "If you run away, I will run after you." sound like a threat and you've changed the entire sense of the book.
So it isn't the freaked out parents that make me two-star this book. It's actually the book itself. 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). 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.