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Creepy creepy carrots5/26/2023 Starred review from AugKids know vegetables can be scary, but rarely are edible roots out to get someone. Agent: Paul Rodeen, Rodeen Literary Management. Watch out, vegetarians-these carrots have bite! Ages 4–8. Jasper’s grin grows maniacal as he constructs a fortress and moat to contain the offending carrot patch, giving the carrots a happy ending in this Hitchcock spoof (Brown even sneaks in a sly Vertigo reference). tunktunktunk of carrots creeping.” Brown (Children Make Terrible Pets) illustrates in noirish grayscale with squash-orange highlights and dramatic lighting, framing each panel in shiny black for a claustrophobic film-still effect that cements the story’s horror movie feel. Reynolds (Snowbots) makes liberal use of ellipses for suspense, conjuring the “soft. Jasper Rabbit doesn’t think twice about plundering the carrots of Crackenhopper Field “until they started following him.” Jasper glimpses three jack-o-lantern–jawed carrots behind him in the bathroom mirror (when he turns around it’s just a washcloth, shampoo bottle, and rubber duck-or is it?), and he yells for his parents when a carrot shadow looms on his bedroom wall. Starred review from JIn a spot-on parody of a paranoid thriller, a hungry bunny senses “creepy carrots” watching his every move.
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