At one point during the course we watched a made for television movie based on the Pulitzer prize winning play, Wit. It consisted of less than 10 students and it was taught by my favorite professor and mentor, Dr. Despite its grim sounding title, it is a class I remember fondly as one of the best courses I’ve ever taken. Oddly, I did not become acquainted with this classic children’s tale until I was a young adult taking a college English class called “Critical Theory Since Plato”. Intricately woven in the depths of the earth. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,įor it was you who formed my inward parts If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there.Īnd settle at the farthest limits of the sea, You search out my path and my lying down, You know when I sit down and when I rise up
O Lord, you have searched me and known me. Margaret Wise Brown died more than 65 years ago, so we cannot ask her what influenced her writing The Runaway Bunny, but each of the dozens of times I reread it, I am reminded of Psalm 139. More than 76 years ago, and during that time it has never gone out of print and remains one of the best-selling children’s books of all time. Margaret Wise Brown published her classic children’s book, The Runaway Bunny, in 1942.
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