concise versions of children's favorites: The Runaway Bunny

The Runaway Bunny. By Margaret Wise Brown. Pictures by Clement Hurd.
A mother bunny quashes her offspring's every aspiration, teaching him that dreams are for other bunnies, that she will outflank any attempts to build a life of his own, and that he is better off just sitting home in their suffocating burrow, eating. A favorite of Roger Waters' mother.

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