The Runaway Bunny

Name: The Runaway Bunny
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Margaret Wise Brown
ISBN: 9780063081949

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

Synopsis

HBO Max animated special premieres March 25, 2021!The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown, beloved children’s book author of Goodnight Moon, is now available in digital audio read by audiobook star Robin Miles!“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.

About Margaret Wise Brown

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tina on September 10, 2021

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

Goodreads review by Hilary on May 11, 2019

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

Goodreads review by bruin on January 25, 2008

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

Goodreads review by Ken on August 02, 2021

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

Goodreads review by Rod on November 06, 2022

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