The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown

How I Found: Amongst the piles of books given to an avid reader for her babies, this little bunny was hidden. Margaret Wise Brown is best remembered for Goodnight Moon and, secondarily, The Big Red Barn. Both vividly illustrated and unforgettably written, just reading the first line of these no doubt sets off the rest of the story photographed on your mind. But, Runaway Bunny is a different sort of story. One that reveals a mother's love despite our babes being ready to run as soon as they can crawl, but it is also a precursor to picture books without words that rely solely on the illustrations.
Why You Might Read: Just like Brown's other books, the lyricism and pictures pull you in, but your little readers will love looking for little bunny in the pictures by Clement Hurd and the novel ways mother bunny invents to bring him home. Then, like all good mummy bunnies she gives him his good food, and he his satisfied to be still in mum's cozy home, for awhile.

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