Runaway Mummy: A Petrifying Parody
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
A hysterical (and creepy) parody of a children's classic!
Filled with uproarious illustrations, a beloved classic gets a kindhearted send-up in this utterly monsterized parody from Michael Rex, creator of the New York Times bestselling Goodnight Goon. This is The Runaway Bunny like you've never seen it before. Kids will dig the vast array of terrible monsters, but parents will love the sweet sentiment. A fabulous Halloween treat for all those little monsters!
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Rex, who parodied Goodnight Moon with the creepy Goodnight Goon, pokes monstrous fun at another Margaret Wise Brown/Clement Hurd collaboration, The Runaway Bunny. Instead of the cozy call-and-response of Brown's rabbits, Rex crafts an amusing, mock-threatening exchange between a green-faced mummy and her son, who is threatening to run away. " 'If you run away,' said Mother Mummy, 'I will get you! For you are my rotten little mummy!' " Though their conversation is neither cute nor fuzzy, the images reveal mutual affection. When the child mummy says he "will become a gargoyle and hide on a freezing mountaintop," his mother responds that she "will turn into a dragon and breathe fire on you to keep you warm!" A double spread, modeled on Hurd's wordless paintings, shows the dragon heating the grinning gargoyle, who says, "That's a little hot!" Only when the little mummy threatens to become a soccer and piano playing "little boy" rabbit (he and his family are shown in a familiar green room with a red carpet) does his mother express horror. Rex fondly and cleverly imitates the original, echoing its tenderness even as he mocks it. Ages 3 5.
