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posted by [personal profile] orichalcum at 01:13pm on 09/06/2007 under
Does anybody have a theory of what the leftmost picture in the room in Goodnight Moon represents? It's the one that's left out of the good-nights, as opposed to the cow-jumping-over-the-moon and the bears-on-chairs. As far as I can tell, it seems to show a bunny fishing for...bunnies?
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posted by [identity profile] xlagartixax.livejournal.com at 06:27pm on 09/06/2007
I can't recall the exact picture, but if it is what I think it is, then it's actually an illustration from another children's book of the same era (possibly same author or illustrator). The name of the book is "The Runaway Bunny." Story goes something like this: Kid bunny tells Mom bunny one night that he's going to run away, and Mom counters with how she will find Kid in spite of it all.

"I will become a fish and swim far away from you."
"Then I will become a fisherman and catch you with my net, because you are my little bunny and I love you."

et cetera.
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posted by [identity profile] orichalcum.livejournal.com at 06:34pm on 09/06/2007
oh, that makes much more sense. Thanks!
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posted by [identity profile] amethyst73.livejournal.com at 07:24pm on 09/06/2007
"The Runaway Bunny" is a marvelous book, btw. There was a copy of it at my grandmother's house on Cape Cod, and I think my brother and I must have read it hundreds of times. Great, reaffirming story about how parents will always love their kids, and beautiful (if slightly surreal) illustrations with the baby and mother bunny becoming a fish and a fisherman, a sailboat (with enlarged bunny ears for the sails!) and the wind, etc. Amazon link to hardback edition here - pity they don't show the illustrations!
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posted by [identity profile] cookie107.livejournal.com at 11:10pm on 09/06/2007
Runaway Bunny is one of my favorites to read to my boys. I like it better than Goodnight Moon, since there's an actual story. The pages actually alternate between black-and-white with text, and color pictures depicting the "find" scene (with no text). Both my boys like that contrast.
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posted by [personal profile] siercia at 12:14am on 11/06/2007
They got it already, but I'll chime in that it was a favoririte of mine and Widget's as well.
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