Creepy Carrots

Posted on January 22, 2013 by AnEducationInBooks

Jasper Rabbit may be paranoid, but it seems like the very carrots he used to feast upon are now haunting him. Creepy carrots appear to be hiding in the shed and popping out of sidewalk grates. In Peter Brown‘s mainly gray palette, orange carrots and their look-creepy_carrotsalikes keep the reader guessing. Is Jasper crazy or are carrots really following him?

No spoilers will be given here. The ending is fun, unexpected and creepy.

Aaron Reynolds, author of Creepy Carrots, balances humor and scariness well.

As for extensions, host a carrot tasting, diagram a carrot plant and read more carrot books.

About AnEducationInBooks

Wendy BooydeGraaff is the author of Salad Pie, a children's picture book published by Ripple Grove Press. Her work has been published in Emrys Journal Online, The Emerson Review, Jellyfish Review, Bending Genres, SmokeLong Quarterly and Leopardskin & Limes, and is forthcoming in NOON. Read more work at wendybooydegraaff.com or find her on Twitter @BooyTweets.
This entry was posted in Picture books and tagged , , , , , . Bookmark the permalink.

2 Responses to Creepy Carrots

  1. aneducationinbooks says:
    January 28, 2013 at 12:17 pm

    This just won a Caldecott honor!

    Reply

  2. Pingback: Mr. Tiger Goes Wild | An Education in Books Blog

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Google photo

You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.