Parents' Guide to

The Runaway Bunny

By Barbara Schultz, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 2+

Sweet, imaginative story makes little ones feel secure.

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Margaret Wise Brown's The Runaway Bunny is charming, sweet, and reassuring. It's a little more action-oriented than her best-known book, Goodnight Moon, but the rhythm of little bunny and mother bunny's dialogue is similarly soothing to little children. Clement Hurd's illustrations, also, are as warm and delightful as they are in Goodnight Moon. Very young children find little bunny's imagination inspiring, and his cozy spot on mother bunny's lap by the fire gives The Runaway Bunny a nice bedtime feeling.

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