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Summary: Children's favorite
Review: My 4 year old loves this book and has for atleast 2 years now! He loves the cute pictures and great story. He knows it by heart now. I would definitely recommend this book! Goodnight moon is a good book to buy along with this one. It's just as fun!
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Summary: A priceless classic
Review: As an adult, this is one of the books from my childhood that I kept with me. The illustrations are beautiful, and the sentiment is timeless. This is a book about a mother's love for her child, and how she will accept his changes and adventures and always be there with him, guiding and nurturing him. I remember, as a small child, waiting with glee for the wordless color double-pages so that I could point out which flower or sailboat was the baby bunny and sort out which part of the illustration was the mother bunny, as well. How many times in life have we come home to our parents, exhausted and wanting unquestioning, loyal support? If only they all could welcome us home with the words, "Have a carrot." Now that I have a daughter, I've been given this book in board-book form, and it's wonderful. She can knock it around without it getting utterly destroyed. The age this book is really perfect for, though, is right around two years old.
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Summary: Enchanting, love-filled children's tale
Review: This charming story affected me deeply. During a sermon on the love and grace of God, I announced to the congregation that I would be reading from one of the most profound and stimulating works of theology yet produced, before retelling this timeless tale of a mother bunny's unfailing love for her 'little bunny'. Here is pure love illustrated in the simplest way: a fable of a love that just won't let go.
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Summary: Psycho Rabbit Mom Stalks Her Own Baby
Review: This book is NOT cute. It is NOT poetic. It's like a horror movie where the mom has gone insane and hunts down her child who dearly wishes to escape her.
I understand that most people see this book as a mother reassuring her baby that she will be there for him no matter what he becomes and where he goes... But it doesn't read that way at all. If you were to read this book not knowing that it was a children's book, you would be scared.
I found it menacing. I own it but I don't read it to my baby. I don't want her to feel that it's likely that a mom would treat her baby this way. It's evil stuff.
Check this book out of the library if you must. Don't buy it.
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Summary: A true classic
Review: The gorgeous pictures are wonderful. I particularly like how they switch from black and white to color. They are gentle and pretty with soothing colors. This book is easy to read with a gentle rythm to it. The story line is lovely. A young bunny threatens to run away and the mother bunny points out to him that she loves him and will always be there for him to come home to and will not let him run away with out her. My young son will ask me to read this to him over and over again. Truly a childhood classic. Well worth the money.
Enjoy.
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Summary: Not as good as "Goodnight Moon"
Review: which is also written by Margaret Wise Brown, and also illustrated by Clement Hurd. The drawing of the bunny is similar to Goodnight Moon's illustration, but the rest of the artwork is different.
Like a few of the other reviewers here, my only recollection of this tale is from seeing the film, "Wit" where the story is read to a woman dying of cancer. She is comforted by it, and I was brought literally to tears. It is a moving story, but it is certainly not as baby friendly as "Moon" is. I found the story itself so endearing, but mixed with the illustration, it is a little freaky and not pleasing to the eye. "Goodnight Moon" has much brighter colors, more of a primary color base, and easier on the eyes and mind.
Also, when I read this to my 1 1/2 yr old. for the first time, he was not the least bit interested in the pictures or story. He took off running. He has loved "Moon" since he was 10 months old, and never tires of it. I think it is more of a toddler book than this one is.
This is more for children between 3 - 5 years old, so long as the pictures don't frighten them.
I bought this for really cheap at a yard sale, and am glad I did. It was a bit disappointing since both my son and I had loved "Goodnight Moon" so much.
From the reviews I have read here, this story sends mixed messages. The message of the story is that a mother's love is unconditional. This was written in a different time, and I think there is a lot of fear driven into society lately.
Plus, I can see how people can have that sense of the story with the creepy pictures. I'm sure the writer was trying to show the love a mother has for her child. It is not intended to scare anyone. It is a timeless story that will tug at your heartstrings. It's very moving to see the love a mother has for her child.
I recommend it for it's story content. Be weary of the illustrations as they are bound to sway your opinion of the story itself.
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Summary: Comfort in a child's book
Review: I had never heard of the book, "The Runaway Bunny" until I saw the movie "Wit" about a terminally ill woman dying of ovarian cancer. Like Zinta Aistars was saying, the book can be a comfort to anyone looking for that security again that one has when they are a child. Maybe when we are close to death, we become childlike again and all the things of the adult world lose their meaning. Anyway, I went out and purchased the book after I saw the movie and am looking forward to reading it to my child when I have one. The book can also be used as a metaphor for God's love (as in the movie) or a Mother's love. I recommed both the book and the movie. This book is powerful, yet simplistic in it's expression of unconditional love.
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Summary: Through All Ages, Through All Changes
Review: How to define a mother? Her heart offers unconditional love - as close to divinity as a human being can hope to be. For this wonderful children's book to survive as intact in its message of unconditional love since its publication in 1942 as this one has, only goes to show how timeless some messages remain through all ages, through all changes. A mother's love has no expiration date. My children are grown. Not beyond my unconditional love, which will always be theirs, but they have grown beyond the capacity of my lap and our once-upon-a-time story hour. But even as they entered those nerve wracking teen years, and now no less testing adult years, I have found this message is one that I repeat to them again and again. Will always love you... will always be here for you... always and beyond all space and time and boundaries... Margaret Wise Brown's "The Runaway Bunny" was a pleasure I shared with my children when they were small. We each felt our measure of comfort in reading the simple lines about the little bunny with attitude, having his little runaway tantrum. Mama will love him to whatever corners of the earth he runs to; she will find him there, anywhere, and she will bring him home to the warmth of her arms and her mother's heart every time. With love like this, little bunny realizes there is no need to run. Interestingly enough, the charm of this book had faded in my memory until the book surfaced in a recent (and excellent) movie, "Wit," with Emma Thompson. The children's book is read to the dying woman as her soul struggles to run away from its torment, in fear and pain within her... and it helps her relax her fear and release her soul into the divine unconditional love available to her, in a metaphor for God, the Father. This interpretation added another dimension to the story - and, intrigued, I picked up the book once again. This kind of love - and our need for it - never gets old. The book is a collectible classic - for the child with attitude in us all, for the spirit longing for Home.
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Summary: Expresses love better than my own words... :)
Review: I loved this book when I was a child and got it for my five year old when his baby sister was born. He had adapted very well but I could tell the idea of me always there for him was very reassuring. It was like an invisible security blanket wrapped around him- and therefore gave me peace too! I can't recomend it highly enough. The creativity and expression of the story are inspired and the art work is vivid and beautiful. It even keeps the attention of the baby! You know it's good when they'll both sit for the same story. :) SWP
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Summary: Bunnies loving bunnies
Review: Brown's story of a little bunny who plans to run away and the mother bunny who plans to follow, no matter what, is marvelous. The illustrations and language are superb, and with a simple storyline, Brown conveys the depth and steadiness of the mother bunny's love for her child. Some readers interpret the mother bunny as an inspirational God figure, while others interpret the mother's insistence on following the young bunny as creepy ("Bunnies Who Love Bunnies Too Much"). Both perspectives CAN be supported. But I continue to read and enjoy the story as a parent's clear expression of love for one's child; the story is moving, without being saccharine. The little bunny is--after all--"little" and is threatening to run away, not to "grow up." (If a grown bunny wanted to move out, get a job, and start dating, and mother said, "I'm going to track you down, and we're going to run a motel together"...that WOULD be a different story.) Before they can spell, many children threaten running away just to test a parent's reaction. Here, the mother bunny responds with grace, patience, and reassuring love--and with that exquisite final carrot. Surely when little bunny grows up and does leave home, it will be with the knowledge that mother's love is along in spirit.
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