Thoughts on Children's Fiction  This week's post is copied from
the wonderful Mockingbird Blog, to which I am a sometime
contributor. The original post can be found HERE, and it is
written by my friend Sarah Richey:  I was reminded recently of
the wonderful children's book, The Runaway Bunny by Margaret
Wise Brown. For those of you who haven't read it in a while,
it's about a little bunny who decides to run away.  He tells his
mother, "I am running away," and she replies, "If you run away,
I will run after you. For you are my little bunny." So the
little bunny schemes, "If you run after me, I will become a fish
in a trout stream and I will swim away from you." And the mother
never hesitates, "If you become a fish... I will become a
fisherman and I will fish for you." And it goes on, and the
little bunny becomes a bird, and a crocus, and a sailboat...and
the mother becomes a tree, and a gardener, and the wind, and so
on, always finding her little bunny. In short, it's brilliant!
I'm no connoisseur of children'