Synopses & Reviews
Celebrating 75 years, The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown, beloved children s book author of Goodnight Moon, in a sturdy board book edition, perfect for little hands.
If you run away, said his mother, I will run after you. For you are my little bunny.
A little bunny keeps running away from his mother in this imaginary game of hide-and-seek. Children will be profoundly comforted by this lovingly steadfast mother who finds her child every time.
The Runaway Bunny, first published in 1942 and never out of print, has indeed become a classic. Generations of readers have fallen in love with the gentle magic of its reassuring words and loving pictures. The sturdy board book pages make this edition of the beloved story perfect for babies and toddlers.
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"Charming, sweet, and reassuring." Common Sense Media
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"This is one of the nicest things Margaret Wise Brown has done, and Clement Hurd has made enchanting pictures." Kirkus Reviews
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"Delightful. What mother, human, or rabbit, doesn't want to keep that new little one in their sight at all times?" Brightly
About the Author
Few writers have been as attuned to the concerns and emotions of childhood as Margaret Wise Brown (1910-1952). A graduate of Hollins College and the progressive Bank Street College of Education, she combined her literary aspirations with the study of child development. Her unique ability to see the world through a child's eyes is unequaled. Her many classic books continue to delight thousands of young listeners and readers year after year.
Clement Hurd (1908-1988) is best known for illustrating Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny, the classic picture books by Margaret Wise Brown. He studied painting in Paris with Fernand Léger and others in the early 1930s. After his return to the United States in 1935, he began to work in children's books. He illustrated more than one hundred books, many of them with his wife, Edith Thacher Hurd, including the Johnny Lion books, The Day the Sun Danced, and The Merry Chase. A native of New York City, he lived most of his life in Vermont and California.