What is the scariest vegetable of all time? Broccoli?
Rutabaga? Black olives,
perhaps? Kids have been debating this
question for centuries. If you asked Jasper Rabbit, however, he would
tell you that you’re barking up the wrong produce aisle. Everyone knows that the scariest vegetable of
all time is any vegetable that follows you home.
At least everyone knows this who has read Creepy Carrots!, a
brilliant new picture book by Aaron Reynolds and Peter Brown.
Creepy Carrots! chronicles the harrowing journey of Jasper Rabbit,
a young bunny whose greed for carrots proves to be his own undoing. Jasper loves carrots. He can’t get enough of them, especially the
ones from Crackenhopper field. But one
day, as Jasper is about to help himself to another snack, he hears it – “The
soft . . . sinister . . . tunktunktunk
of carrots creeping.”
