The Runaway Bunny

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1. rmkApr 2021
   - Good Night, Moon

   - The Runaway Bunny

   - Harold and the Purple Crayon

   - Grandfather Twilight (for slightly older children)

   - Sandra Boynton books

   - Max's Breakfast (and other books)

   - I Read Signs (Tana Hoban; other books by her also quite good)

   - Go! Go! Go! Stop! (Cherise Mericle Harper)

   - Little Pea (Amy Krouse Rosenthal)

   - Trucks, My Car (and other Byron Barton books)

   - The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Eric Carle; some other books by this author are also good)

   - Roadwork (Sally Sutton; also in the same vein by the illustrator Brian Lovelock: Demolition, Flight of the Honey Bee, The Rain Train).

   Many others come to mind, but these are well-loved.

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2. 9erdeltaMar 2022
   I am pretty sure the rabbit fishing is a reference to "The Runaway Bunny", another one of her books.
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3. ndMar 2022
   That’s correct. It’s an image from “The Runaway Bunny”. The story has the baby rabbit changing shape to get away from the mother, and the mother changing shape to attract/get the baby rabbit. It sounds a bit violent in description, but it’s not when you read it.

   So for example the baby turns to a fish, and the mother starts fishing; or —- and this captures the spirit better —- the baby to a climber and the mother to a mountain.

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4. wjgMar 2022
   This post made me look through the pages of Goodnight Moon, and I noticed that on top of the bookshelf on the left side of the room is a book titled The Runaway Bunny. All of the other books on the shelf have scribbled lines on their covers.

   Another somewhat interesting find is that on the nightstand next to the bed sits another book with a discernible title: Goodnight Moon.

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5. core-questionsJan 2020
   Goodnight Moon is a great children's book for a few reasons.

   - It goes around introducing a bunch of objects in the room, filling the child's short term memory with them as they're introduced. This helps push other things out of mind and brings some focus.

   - The pictures add depth with their bright, unrealistic colours and small scale detail. The careful eye will notice many little details.

   - The book alternates between color pages and B&W, showing the child two different styles. The B&W pages heavily feature the text, helping the child figure out that those letter squiggles might actually have meaning and bear some relationship to what their parent is saying everytime they look at that page.

   - All of the introduced objects are then dismissed, one by one, putting them back out of mind with some "closure" while not introducing anything new. Everything has been properly bidden (bade?) farewell and has been put away; the child can rest easy knowing it's all accounted for.

   - The book ties into Runaway Bunny, and I think there's a third book too, which gives the child the nice idea that there's a universe inside the book that other books can also peek into.

   It's been a staple for all my kids and I'm sure the copy will be kept for the grandkids....

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