Bypassing the boring white pairs, Jasper begs his mom to get the peculiar looking but comfy neon green underwear-even if it resembles Frankenstein's monster. School Library Journal - PreS-Gr 2-Jasper Rabbit and his mother go shopping one Thursday for much-needed new underwear. This strikes the ideal balance between frightening and hilarious, and like the underwear itself, readers are guaranteed to keep coming back for this storytime platinum! - Copyright 2017 Booklist. But then, when Jasper finally does at last find a way to dispose of them, the utter darkness in his room sparks a change of heart and a trip back to the local undie emporium. Featuring a grimacing monster face in the illustrations and a green glow made even more lurid by the solid black backgrounds, the scary skivvies seem to leap out at viewers with each page turn.
The underwear refuses to stay in the garbage can or a box mailed to China, and they even come back after being cut up into snippets. His dismay quickly changes to terror after he stuffs them in the laundry hamper-and wakes up wearing them. Jasper doesn’t realize that his prized new undies glow, until the bedroom lights go out. The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (00/07/17)īooklist - *Starred Review* Returning to their Caldecott Honor Book world of Creepy Carrots! (2012), Reynolds and Brown put young Jasper Rabbit through even creepier, more scream-inducing horror, now with a pair of glow-in-the-dark underpants that, like the cat in the famous song (or a number of horror staples), keep. Video Preview: Accelerated Reader Information: (chiefly col.), 31 cmĪ young rabbit is frightened by his underwear.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (2017)
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