While some may find the outrageously long sentences tedious or exhausting, we find them humorous. I credit repeated exposure to Ahlberg's excessive(?) use of interrupting conjunctive adverbs for my five-year-old's penchant for using them in his own story telling. For older readers, The Runaway Dinner offers a fine study in the appropriate use of the comma. ( )

It's the tale of The Gingerbread Man moved to teatime and told minus the hubris and nemesis, which enables the story to be satisfactorily circular whilst remaining artfully unresolved. ( )

In my opinion this is a very fun book! I love this book because of the language and illustrations. The language in this book is very descriptive. One part that I love is not only did the author go into detail about what the runaway food looks like, but also gave the food names. For example, when the french-fries were running away two names that were given to the french-fries were Francois and Fifi because they were French. I thought this was very creative and added silliness in the book. The language in this book was also fun because there was no pattern. This really added suspense to the book because you never knew who was going to be caught next or who was going to be eaten next! The illustrations in this book were also great. The pictures in this book really enhance the story. Since this book has a lot of descriptive language, it can get overwhelming. I believe the pictures help take the silly language and bring it to life. The illustrations in this book also fit the written text, which is organized. The pictures are neatly painted and also have the same color scheme of soft colors.
After re-reading this book multiple times I do not believe that there is an overall moral to this book. I think this book was created for all different reading ages and for them to have a good laugh at such a silly story. ( )

This book is perfect for personification. The sausage, fork, knife, plate, table, chair get up and ran away. The rest of his food on the plate also got up and walked away. During their runaway the objects found other things to do like baseball

this is a really funny book. It starts with a sausage jumping off of a dinner plate and the chase that ensues. ( )