Wise Brown, M. (1942) The runaway bunny. New York: Harper.I have posted on the relationship between father and son with Guess How Much I Love You, The Runaway Bunny is about the relationship between mother and son. It is a conversation that a first makes the reader nervous--the young bunny wants to runaway. But in the end, the bunny realizes that no matter where he goes, his mother will be with him.
It's no wonder that The Runaway Bunny won the New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year Award. The artwork is stunning. Every other page is absent of words but contains beautiful watercolors depicting the previous pages' text. The use of color is so fluid and breathtaking. The other pages contain simple pen-and-ink sketches of the conversation between mother and son.Brown is also the author of Goodnight Moon. The Runaway Bunny contains a small allusion to Goodnight Moon in the artwork, the mother and son bunnies in that famous bedroom.
The language in The Runaway Bunny is simple and repetitive, just what you are looking for with an early reader or in a bedtime story.
Related posts:
Guess How Much I Love You
Goodnight Little One (also by Margaret Wise Brown)
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