Category: Children & Young Adult Reading

The Runaway Bunny

He was in such a hurry to run away that he did not even stop to clear off his breakfast table. He did not even stop to wind his clock or lock his front door!

Chapters

11. Chapter X

Suddenly he stopped and remembered he had no presents for Old Mother Bun and Old Father Bun. So back he went hippety-hop, hippety-hop, to his little house; and up he went into t...

3. Chapter II

The Runaway Bunny took out his little toy watch and looked at it. And, though he could not tell time, he said, “My fur and cottontail! It seems to be time for something to eat.”

9. Chapter VIII

Then the Runaway Bunny ran on faster than ever and the tiny hands of the Wrist Watch ran round its face. Before he could believe it, the Runaway Bunny was learning to tell time.

2. Chapter I

He was in such a hurry to run away that he did not even stop to clear off his breakfast table. He did not even stop to wind his clock or lock his front door!

7. Chapter VI

“When I am lonesome I’m always singing Of a jolly old kite that used to fly At the end of the string I was often swinging, And I said to old earth, ‘Good-bye, good-bye!’”

4. Chapter III

The Runaway Bunny hung his head, for he had never been generous enough to give away anything in all his life. But as the rain was falling fast, he wanted to go in and dry his fu...

5. Chapter IV

Old Father Bun did not agree with her. He knew it paid to advertise in newspapers. So he put on his old felt hat, took his walking stick, and started out to a real newspaper off...

8. Chapter VII

The Runaway Bunny, as a rule, Likes to run away, The Runaway Bunny said, “To school I go this September day. “I don’t know the words, I don’t know the tune. I’m the Runaway Bunn...

10. Chapter IX

So, leaving his turkey and pie, he ran hippety-hop to the grocer’s and bought sweet potatoes and took them home. He pared them and cut them up. He pared some carrots, too. Then...

6. Chapter V

The Runaway Bunny ran on and on until he could run no longer. Then he set up a shout, for he had been traveling in a circle, and here he was back at his own little house in the...

1. Chapter X