![]() ![]() Watch out, vegetarians these carrots have bite! Ages 4 8. ![]() Jasper's grin grows maniacal as he constructs a fortress and moat to contain the offending carrot patch, giving the carrots a happy ending in this Hitchcock spoof (Brown even sneaks in a sly Vertigo reference). 26 Total Resources 4 Awards View Text Complexity Discover Like Books. In this Caldecott Honorwinning picture book, The Twilight Zone comes. tunktunktunk of carrots creeping." Brown (Children Make Terrible Pets) illustrates in noirish grayscale with squash-orange highlights and dramatic lighting, framing each panel in shiny black for a claustrophobic film-still effect that cements the story's horror movie feel. by Aaron Reynolds and Peter Brown Part of the Creepy Tales. Reynolds (Snowbots) makes liberal use of ellipses for suspense, conjuring the "soft. The carrots, however, do not feel the same way about Jasper. Jasper Rabbit loves the carrots of Crackenhopper Field, for a snack that is. Jasper Rabbit doesn't think twice about plundering the carrots of Crackenhopper Field "until they started following him." Jasper glimpses three jack-o-lantern jawed carrots behind him in the bathroom mirror (when he turns around it's just a washcloth, shampoo bottle, and rubber duck or is it?), and he yells for his parents when a carrot shadow looms on his bedroom wall. Creepy Carrots by Aaron Reynolds is the perfect story to read to your kids for a little bit of spooky fun. In a spot-on parody of a paranoid thriller, a hungry bunny senses "creepy carrots" watching his every move. ![]()
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