The Runaway Bunny Book and Tape
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The Runaway Bunny Book and Tape

Paperback – Picture Book, December 5, 1989

Price
$7.17
Publisher
HarperFestival
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-0898459951
Dimensions
8.5 x 0.5 x 13 inches

Description

Margaret Wise Brown, cherished for her unique ability to convey a child’s experience and perspective of the world, transformed the landscape of children’s literature with such beloved classics as Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny . Other perennial favorites by Ms. Brown include My World ; Christmas in the Barn ; The Dead Bird ; North, South, East, West ; and Good Day, Good Night . 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. Clement Hurd (1908–1988) se graduó de Yale University. Estudió pintura en París en los años 1930 con Fernand Léger, entre otros. Allí fue donde desarrolló su estilo característico, compuesto de colores de fuerte contraste. Hurd estuvo casado con la escritora Edith Thacher Hurd, con quien también creó muchos libros que se convirtieron en favoritos de los niños.

Features & Highlights

  • Clement Hurd redrew some of his pictures for this new edition of the profoundly comforting story of a bunny's imaginary game of hide-and-seek and the lovingly steadfast mother who finds him every time.

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Mom wouldn't let me have this book

I give "Runaway Bunny" only four stars because it appears to mean more to parents than it does to children, and because I recall only wanting to read it, but never actually having the honor.

When I was a kid, my mother refused to let me even check this book out from the library, for fear it was too morbid. She said the possibility of my running away was just too depressing for her--as though I should have been flattered. She may as well have said, "Your taste in books is creepy. And if you ever ran away, I'd never go through such a ridiculous fuss looking for you. I'd be too busy feeling sorry for myself. Let the police do that chore."

Are there any kids out there who were as traumatized by this book as I was by being outright denied it? I finally broke free from decades of my mother's continuing abuse, and ordered the story I'd secretly yearned for as my victory prize.

My daughter will not have to sneak longing peeks at it behind my back. Hopefully she'll be very reassured and pleased by it. If not, I'll pack it up and send it to my own mother-- perhaps it will clue her into why she doesn't hear from me anymore.