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The Runaway Bunny
Children's fiction
The Runaway Bunny
48 pages · First published 1942
A little bunny announces that he will run away, and his mother calmly answers every escape plan with a way she will follow and find him. If he becomes a fish, she will become a fisherman; if he becomes a rock, she will become a mountain climber. Their imaginative exchange grows increasingly elaborate without ever threatening the mother’s steady affection. Margaret Wise Brown’s picture-book classic, illustrated by Clement Hurd, offers a simple reassurance that independence and unconditional parental love do not have to be opposites.
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A young bunny repeatedly imagines running away from his mother; mild separation anxiety themes; no mature content.
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