![]() ![]() The fix is in, even before reading truly begins. ![]() In this gift edition, the two volumes are tucked snugly into a sturdy cardboard sleeve, illustrated on each side with the familiar book covers. This sensation speaks to the anxiety that our children-creatures of perfect simplicity-will not be able to escape the web of associations and the plague of reality-questioning that afflict the literate adult. Contains Goodnight Moon, The Runaway Bunny, and My World Three Margaret Wise Brown classics go mini in this slipcase containing miniature versions of. The Runaway Bunny and Goodnight Moon are the quintessential children's bedtime books, adored for generations by sleepy tots and their parents. When it comes to partial magic in toddler lit, we get a tunneling sense of vertigo from seeing smaller works within the larger, from seeing real books introduced into what should be hermetically sealed worlds. ![]() It’s a structural dizziness with metaphysical implications. Why, when we read Goodnight Moon, are we disturbed to see a diminished copy of an image from The Runaway Bunny? Why does Pat the Bunny’s second book make us stifle a scream? (And what is it with bunnies, anyway?) After surveying the history of stories-within-stories, plays-within-plays, maps-within-maps, Borges concluded that the fact that fictional characters can read a book introduces the frightening possibility that we are characters, being read by someone else. ![]()
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