{"id":292,"date":"2022-10-07T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T16:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carolfranksrandall.com\/?p=292"},"modified":"2025-05-20T20:51:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T20:51:22","slug":"creepy-pair-of-underwear-by-aaron-reynolds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carolfranksrandall.com\/?p=292","title":{"rendered":"Creepy Pair of Underwear! by Aaron Reynolds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Happy Halloween! With Halloween quickly approaching, Dr. Toughlove thought it was an opportune time to review the book “Creepy Pair of Underwear!,” written by Aaron Reynolds and illustrated by Peter Brown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Happy Halloween! With Halloween quickly approaching, Dr. Toughlove thought it was an opportune time to review the book \u201cCreepy Pair of Underwear!\u201d, written by Aaron Reynolds and illustrated by Caldecott Honor Winner, Peter Brown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aaron Reynolds has written several books featuring Jasper Rabbit, a loveable, impish protagonist who is an excellent problem-solver. In \u201cCreepy Pair of Underwear!\u201d Jasper Rabbit and his mom go to the underwear store to buy white underwear. During their shopping outing, Jasper spots a display for Creepy Underwear. \u201cSo Creepy!\u201d \u201cSo Comfy!\u201d \u201cThey were glorious\u201d (p. 4). Jasper Rabbit falls in love with the creepy underwear and his mom, against her better judgement, agrees to buy a pair. This purchase makes Jasper Rabbit feel very grown-up and he is elated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The joy is short-lived, because when Jasper Rabbit gets home, puts on his creepy underwear and goes to bed, something very unusual happens\u2026..the underwear glows! \u201cA ghoulish, greenish glow\u201d (p. 8).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Toughlove doesn\u2019t want to give the story away, but let it suffice to say that Jasper Rabbit\u2019s creative, persistent, problem solving saved the day. Jasper Rabbit does prevail in the end, thank goodness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adults reading this book aloud to children have ample opportunities to talk about perseverance and persistence. \u201cCreepy Pair of Underwear!\u201d might also open up a conversation about any fears children have and how they might address them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peter Brown\u2019s delightful illustrations serve to enhance Aaron Reynolds\u2019 words and embed subtleties and nuances that won\u2019t be lost on the children. As is often the case, the youngsters will point out things that the adults might miss, and this book provides multiple opportunities for rich discussions. On Aaron Reynolds\u2019 website, he has a YouTube video where he reads \u201cCreepy Pair of Underwear!\u201d aloud. Children (and adults for that matter), might get a kick out of hearing the person who wrote the words read this book with emphasis and feeling. Children might also want to read some of Aaron Reynolds\u2019 other Jasper Rabbit creepy tales \u2013 \u201cCreepy Carrots!\u201d and his most recent book \u201cCreepy Crayon!\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCreepy Pair of Underwear!\u201d is suggested for ages 4-8 and is available at the Queen Anne\u2019s County Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Happy Halloween! With Halloween quickly approaching, Dr. Toughlove thought it was an opportune time to review the book “Creepy Pair of Underwear!,” written by Aaron Reynolds and illustrated by Peter Brown. Happy Halloween! With Halloween quickly approaching, Dr. Toughlove thought it was an opportune time to review the book \u201cCreepy Pair of Underwear!\u201d, written by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolfranksrandall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolfranksrandall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolfranksrandall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolfranksrandall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolfranksrandall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carolfranksrandall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298,"href":"https:\/\/carolfranksrandall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolfranksrandall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolfranksrandall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolfranksrandall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}