The Runaway Bunny, But Not Just Yet

At Joe's music class this past Saturday, the book selection was The Runaway Bunny. Besides creating a renewed interest in hopping like a bunny, this selection prompted a renewed interest in the book at home. For the past three nights, we have read both The Runaway Bunny and The Runaway Dinner. Joe quite deliberately picked out this pairing, though book books had been out of rotation for some time (though The Runaway Bunny, sadly, was never really in rotation). Toward the end of The Runaway Bunny, the bunny announces that if his mother will become the wind and blow the sailboat he becomes wherever she wants him to go, then he will fly away on a flying trapeze. The mother bunny tells him that if he goes flying away on a flying trapeze, she will become a tightrope walker and walk across the air to him. When we looked at the illustration of this scene, Joe excitedly told Julie, "I want to go up high and you to catch me. I must get bigger." He must, but hopefully not just yet.