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Once there was a little mummy who wanted to run away. "If you run away," said Mother Mummy, "I will get you! For you are my rotten little mummy!"
A little mummy transforms into a series of incredible monsters in order to run away and assert his independence. His mother keeps coming to "get" him, but this little mummy has a mind of his own. Filled with uproarious illustrations, another beloved classic gets a kind-hearted send-up in this utterly monsterized parody. Ener getic art and a hilarious text will have kids begging to read this again and again. |
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| Kindergarten-Grade 2–Children will enjoy comparing this parody page by page to Margaret Wise Brown's The Runaway Bunny (HarperCollins, 1942). When a little mummy gets in trouble, he begins an imaginary game of chase with his mother. Distinctive headgear and occasional bandages identify the two through their spooky transformations. When her child becomes a serpent, gargoyle, or huge bat, the mother becomes the sea monster, dragon, or ancient cathedral necessary to be with her child. Only when the little mummy becomes a boy (actually a bunny) who takes karate and learns to play piano does his mother have to use her most savage, awful, terrible, bloodcurdling shriek to save him. She bursts into a room, which Clement Hurd might have painted, and terrifies the parents while the green goon from Rex's Goodnight Goon (Putnam, 2008) peers through the window. Little mummy thinks it's all a scream and decides to be his mother's rotten little mummy forever. Rex uses pencil drawings colored in Photoshop for his lively cartoon illustrations. Librarians might pair this story with Brown's classic or with Robert San Souci's Cinderella Skeleton (Harcourt, 2000) for a spooky take on another classic tale and an eerie, laugh-filled storytime.–Mary Jean Smith, Southside Elementary School, Lebanon, TN
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| This parody of Margaret Wise Brown's classic The Runaway Bunny is the story of a rotten little mummy who wants to run away from his Mother Mummy. "If you run away," she says, "I will get you! For you are my rotten little mummy!"
The little mummy goes on to tell his mother all sorts of monstrous creatures he will turn into if she tries to get him. When he says he'll become a "humongous beast that tramples everything in [his] way," Mother Mummy responds, "If you become a humongous beast, I will become a sky-high monster with razor-sharp claws to tickle you!"
The illustrations are crisp and colorful and fun to look at. While in The Runaway Bunny there are two pages of black and white sketches accompanied by words, followed by a full-spread color illustration, The Runaway Mummy is all in color.
This whimsical story is super cute in a freakish way, showing to what ends a Mother Mummy would go to show her love for her rotten little mummy. There is a fun twist at the end, but you must read it yourself to find out what!
This adorable book and last year's Goodnight Goon: A Petrifying Parody by the same author are PERFECT for Halloween and are wonderful gifts for fans of Margaret Wise Brown. |
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