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. 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. 'If you run away,' said his mother, 'I will run after you. 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. 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. 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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