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Module 1- Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown


Genre:
Picture Book

Book Summary:
Little bunny imagines with his mother what might happen were he to run away from her.  His imaging grows bigger and wilder each time, but each time, his mother is there to remind him how much she cares.

  • Brown, M. W., & Hurd, C. (1972). The runaway bunny. New York: Harper & Row.
Impressions:
Children often ask "what if," and sometimes, they ask the questions of adults to reaffirm that everything will be okay.  Runaway Bunny is a story that gets to the heart of a child's fear of abandonment and a mother's reassurance that she will always do whatever she can to keep her child safe and by her side.  The story is a sweet reminder for both child and adult of just how deep a parent's love it.

 Professional Review:
"This is one of the nicest things Margaret Wise Brown has done, and Clement Hurd has made enchanting pictures, with line drawings and eight double spreads in four colors, beautifully reproduced. The text pattern is a successful dialogue with almost nursery rhyme repetition and rhythm (those in prose)."

 Kirkus (1942). [Review for the book Runaway Bunny by M.W. Brown and C. Hurd].   Retrieved from https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/margaret-wise-brown/the-runaway-bunny/

Library Uses:
Runaway Bunny is a great book to use in showing a predictable structure.  Each time, the bunny says he will do go somewhere and turn into something, while mother tells how she will find and save him.  An activity one could do with this book is to read the story to students, focusing in on the repetition the author uses in the story structure.  Then, before  the final pages where the bunny goes home and his mother is there to hug him, students could spend some times imagining their own place bunny would run away to and how his mother would find him.  They could write, illustrate, and share their ideas before closing with the final few pages of the book. 

Readalikes:
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney
Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman

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