“I loved being creeped out by books, but not terrified,” he said. In the trilogy, Reynolds combines spine-tickling and spine-tingling elements, a mix he appreciated as a young reader. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers has announced an August 2022 pub date and an announced 500,000-copy first printing for Creepy Crayon!, whose cover is pictured here for the first time. In Creepy Crayon!, the rabbit's third misadventure, the beleaguered hero confronts a new nemesis-a know-it-all purple crayon that aces all of Jasper’s schoolwork, but refuses to quit despite the conscience-plagued student’s desperate attempts to dispense with it (even melting it in the microwave and flushing it down the toilet). Together, the two titles have sold more than one million copies in the U.S. Brown picked up a Caldecott Honor for that picture book, which was followed in 2017 by Creepy Pair of Underpants!, chronicling Jasper’s battle with a persistent pair of glow-in-the-dark undies that reappears each time he tries to dispose of them. In 2012’s Creepy Carrots!, written by Aaron Reynolds and illustrated by Peter Brown, a bunch of cranky carrots stalk the ravenous bunny after he repeatedly raids the carrot patch. Jasper Rabbit has not had an easy go of it.
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