The Runaway Bunny
By Margaret Wise Brown; Clement Hurd (Illustrator)
(HarperCollins, Hardcover, 9780060775827, 48pp.)
Publication Date: February 2005
Other Editions of This Title: Paperback, Board Book
Categories: Classics, Family - General, Social Issues - Emotions & Feelings
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A little bunny keeps runningaway from his mother in an imaginative and imaginary game of verbal 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 and loving pictures.
Few writers have been as attuned to the concerns and emotions of childhood as Margaret Wise Brown (1910-1952). A graduate of Hollins College and the progressive Bank Street College of Education, she combined her literary aspirations with the study of child development. Her unique ability to see the world through a child's eyes is unequaled. Her many classic books continue to delight thousands of young listeners and readers year after year.












