

The Runaway Bunny
Author: Margaret Wise Brown
Narrator: Robin Miles
Unabridged: 3 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 09/15/2020
Categories: Children's Fiction, Classic Children's Stories, Animal Stories
Author: Margaret Wise Brown
Narrator: Robin Miles
Unabridged: 3 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 09/15/2020
Categories: Children's Fiction, Classic Children's Stories, Animal Stories
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.
I have to be honest. I'm shocked by the amount of negativity this book got in the reviews. It's just downright silly. This is obviously about a young rabbit, who is angry about something--probably being told to clean his room or the like--not a teenage rabbit who wants to go out and enter the world.......more
4.5 stars. Beautiful illustrations of a mother rabbit and her son. I can see how this might read as the rabbit son is stifled by his mother whom there is just no escape from, if you read it with this in mind it does become quite amusing, but I can see it's intended to show that the mother rabbit is......more
so, ummm, the runaway bunny tries to set boundaries over and over to take some space in this story and basically their parent, tramples them over and over.. kinda creepy.......more
I need to know where Daddy Bunny is during all this... Considered a classic picturebook which tells the simple story of a young bunny who wishes to gain independence and runaway from home. On the one hand it's quite a sweet tale as a mother's unconditional love dictates that she will follow him with e......more
I never thought much of this book the first time I read it, but with this re-read I really like the little battle of wits between the mother rabbit and her son. And this time I was more struck by things that escaped me before, like the sails on the bunny boat being elongated ears and the connections......more