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Creepy Carrots!

=Creepy Carrots!=

Creepy Carrots is a Junior Picture Book written by Aaron Reynolds and Illustrated by Peter Brown. The 40 page Picture Book was published on August 21, 2012 by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.

Summary
Jasper Rabbit loved carrots. Especially the carrots that grew in Crackenhooper Field. They were "Fat, Crisp. And Free for the taking" Jasper enjoyed these carrots "on the way to school, on his way to Little League practice and on his way home at night". Jasper just loved his carrots and "couldn't get enough, until they started following him". Jasper first noticed something strange after his game when he stopped at Crackenhopper Field. Then while he was brushing his teeth he saw the creepy carrots, then he even saw them in the shed and and on his wall. "By the end of the week Jasper was seeing creepy carrots creeping EVERYWHERE." Jasper then thought up a plan to make sure the carrots couldn't escape,and built a fence and a moat around Crackenhooper Field. Jasper was very pleased with himself "no creepy carrots would get out of that patch again." As the sun set the carrots "Cheered. Their plan had worked, Jasper Rabbit would never get into that carrot patch ever again".

Author
"Aaron Reynolds was born on June 4, 1970. Growing up Aaron lived in Texas, Colarado, Flordia, Okinawa and New Jersey. Aaron now lives in Chicago with his wife, 2 kids, 4 cats and several goldfish.

Aaron graduated with a degree in Theatre from Illinois Wesleyan University.

Aaron Reynolds is a New York Times Bestselling Author. He has a passion for kids books and seeing kids reading them. He regularly makes time to make school visits."

Illustrator
"Peter Brown has always loved telling stories.

Growing up in New Jersey, he told stories by drawing whimsical characters and scenes from his imagination. Then, as a teenager, he fell in love with writing, and told his tales with words. Peter now lives in Brooklyn, New York,

While studying illustration at Art Center College of Design, Peter’s love of both words and pictures led him to take several courses on children’s books. And before long he knew he’d found his calling.After graduating from Art Center Peter moved to New York City to be closer to the publishing industry."

Characters

 * Jasper Rabbit
 * Jasper Rabbit's Mom
 * Jasper Rabbit's Dad
 * The Creepy Carrots

Reviews
Deborah Stevenson review of the book Creepy Carrots, gives a summary of the overall story. “Young Jasper has developed the habit of snatching carrots out of the field whenever he passes by it on the way to school, to baseball, to wherever. But then something strange happens: the carrots begin to follow him wherever he goes, lurking in the dark corners at night (he hears "terrible, carroty breathing") and disappearing before they can be seen by anyone else.” Deborah then discusses the contrast throughout the story, “ The book balances menace and absurdity in this strange tale of vegetable stalking, playing up the contrast between the genuinely spooky elements and the unassuming threat.” She also goes into detail about the images in the book. “Glossy black borders and smudgy pencil outlines lightened only by paler gray and set off by the orange of the carrots to provide a smoky Halloween flavor to Brown's nocturnal art, and the scenes are dense with creepy silhouettes and foreboding shadows. Brown meticulously controls his compositions and balances his spreads, often paralleling or mirroring verso and recto or tidily subdividing pages into panels.”

Awards

 * Randolph Caldecott Medal - 2013 Honor
 * New York Times Bestseller- Children Picture Books -March 3, 2013
 * New York Times Bestseller- Children Picture Books -February 7, 2013
 * Along with several other Accolades