The Runaway Bunny was published in 1942 and was written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd.
The story is about a little bunny who wants to run away from home. For every idea that he comes up with, the mother bunny has a smart answer. By the end, the baby bunny decides to stick around at home.
The Runaway Bunny is a very pleasant story and the color illustrations of the mother bunny preventing the baby bunny from running away are all very well done. The form of the story is basically the baby bunny threatening to run away (one page), then the mother saying how she’ll prevent things (next page) and finally two pages of imaginative ideas.
The story uses the sentence pattern “if you go... I will” over and over, which might be good for students studying English as a second language.
I like how when the baby bunny gives up on running away, it says, “shucks”. Most kids now a days would probably use much stronger language than that.
The inside of the dusk jacket mentions that this story is a classic and is suitable for children age three to seven.
