Old Order Mennonite Memoirs

In 1942 Margaret Wise Brown wrote "The Runaway Bunny." That I can share her story with my granddaughter Bella, age 2, so many years later, is a wonder to me. We've shared many books already for their worth in pictures but the bunny that wanted to run away from its mother held her attention to the end, even as other books lay strewn around us.

Bella was sitting on my lap and I was on the floor at her house when I read to her about the little bunny that threatened to become a fish in the stream to run away from his mother. His mother always had a way in which she would catch him whatever he...