Peter Brown's art is the perfect pairing. For instance, when Jasper cuts up the underwear with his mom's scissors, Jasper thinks, "She didn't like him using them, but this was an underwear emergency." And when he digs a hole to bury the underpants, the hole is "100% underwear-proof." All of which helps highlight his shaky insistence, "A grown rabbit couldn't be terrified of his underpants." Creepy Pair of Underwear! has a really clever premise - an ominous, indestructible pair of underwear straight out of a horror film - and author Aaron Reynolds tells the story with text that's hilariously dry and deadpan. There's lots of silly, spooky fun in this story about a pair of underwear with a "ghoulish, greenish glow" that slyly plays on kids' conflicted feelings about their big-kid underwear.
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