Images of devourment show up in children’s lit (“Children’s Hour,” “The Night Kitchen,” “Little Black Sambo,” “Runaway Bunny”), speaking to an inner tension in kids.
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Runaway Bunny Sing Thee to Thy Rest
In her dying moments, the Donne scholar in Margaret Edson’s W;t rejects Donne in favor of Margaret Wise Brown’s The Runaway Bunny. What does this say about the usefulness of both Donne and Brown when we are pushed to the edge? Runaway Bunny is about “a little bunny who wanted to run away.” But each […]