![]() ![]() Agent: Paul Rodeen, Rodeen Literary Management. ![]() 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). ![]() 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. Come in costume for a special Story Time and craft session at Read Between the Lynes, just before the costume contest and. Creepy Carrots Lesson Plans and IdeasYour kiddos will love the main character, Jasper Rabbit See how we use this book as a week-long close reading. Reynolds (Snowbots) makes liberal use of ellipses for suspense, conjuring the “soft. 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. In a spot-on parody of a paranoid thriller, a hungry bunny senses “creepy carrots” watching his every move. ![]()
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