In fact, she made barely a peep”), Cow (“udder disaster!”) and the rest, McPeeper sleeps on. But despite the best efforts of Sheep (“Her cock-a-doodle baaaaaaaa / didn’t travel too faaa. Zemke provides more farmyard huggermugger (George Shannon’s Wise Acres, 2004) to illustrate Degman’s versified tale of animals trying to substitute at sunrise for an absent rooster.ĭeciding that he needs a week at the beach to catch up on his sleep, Rooster enlists fellow livestock to crow each morning to wake Farmer McPeeper while he’s gone. Perfect for those looking for a scary Halloween tale that won’t leave them with more fears than they started with. And careful observers will note that the underwear’s expression also changes, adding a bit more creep to the tale. Brown’s illustrations keep the backgrounds and details simple so readers focus on Jasper’s every emotion, writ large on his expressive face. It’s only when Jasper finally admits to himself that maybe he’s not such a big rabbit after all that he thinks of a clever solution to his fear of the dark.
In the morning, though, he’s wearing green! He goes to increasing lengths to get rid of the glowing menace, but they don’t stay gone. Despite his “I’m a big rabbit” assertion, that glow creeps him out, so he stuffs them in the hamper and dons Plain White. Plain White satisfies him until he spies them: “Creepy underwear! So creepy! So comfy! They were glorious.” The underwear of his dreams is a pair of radioactive-green briefs with a Frankenstein face on the front, the green color standing out all the more due to Brown’s choice to do the entire book in grayscale save for the underwear’s glowing green…and glow they do, as Jasper soon discovers. 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.Reynolds and Brown have crafted a Halloween tale that balances a really spooky premise with the hilarity that accompanies any mention of underwear. 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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