![]() ![]() ![]() Brown’s noirish digitally colored and composited pencil illustrations - black, white, gray, and Day-Glo green - heighten both the silliness and the spookiness that are on display in equal measure.įrom the September/October 2017 issue of The Horn Book Magazine. A grown rabbit couldn’t be terrified of his underpants”) captures Jasper’s age-appropriate not-quite-a-big-kid dilemma. ‘You’re so jittery lately.’ ‘Nothing!’ he yelped. ![]() Humorous text (“‘What’s the matter with you?’ his mom asked. No matter what Jasper does to dispose of the offending undies - throw them in the trash, mail them to China, cut them into bits - they always make their way back. ![]() While underwear-shopping with his mom, young bunny Jasper Rabbit spies a pair of green glow-in-the-dark undies with a Frankenstein’s-monster face and thinks they’re “glorious.” But once he’s alone in bed in the dark, and they’re glowing their “ghoulish, greenish glow,” Jasper’s fears take flight. This companion book to the author-illustrator team’s Creepy Carrots humorously spookifies another not-usually-scary item. ![]()
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