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Stealing corn chips. Playing with toilet paper. Reveling in smelly shoes.

Sounds like a list of things that toddlers enjoy, but actually these are scenes from my first children’s book, How to Be a House Bunny, available today on Amazon!

For ages 5 to 105, How to Be a House Bunny follows the hilarious hijinks of 32 different house rabbits. It’s an instruction manual, of sorts, for a bunny’s best life.

Because to be an effective house bunny, one should:

• Sit on Human’s head
• Take over Dog’s bed
• Play piano to wake Family

Why house bunnies, you ask? Because let’s face it: house bunnies, by their very existence, are funny as hell. I mean, these are creatures that lived outside for millenniums. But in relatively recent times, humans have decided to catch them, scoop them up, and take them indoors.

You can't blame us. Bunnies are fuzzy, soft and adorable. So we bring them inside where they are faced with a dizzying array of non-bunny things to investigate. You know, like refrigerators, computer cords, antique chairs – and so much more!

I also illustrated How to Be a House Bunny, and no one is more surprised by this than me. For one thing, I am so farsighted now that I can't see the food on my dinner plate. Also my eye doctor says I am color blind, but he lies. I can see colors. Just not the right ones.

In any case, it's a strange thing, at the age of 54, to pick up a paintbrush and say I think I'll just sit here in my Dollar Tree readers and illustrate a children's book for 18 months. Although I’d been drawing for years and played with acrylics here and there, I'd never tried watercolor in any serious way because I'd heard it was fussy and unforgiving. In late 2023, I came across videos that showed how simple, fun, and yes, forgiving watercolor could be. I was hooked.

And what did I paint? Bunnies. Lots and lots of house bunnies.

Probably because I sort of want a house bunny. Don’t tell the Husband! After almost 14 years of the late Suzie the Meth Lab (love and miss you, Suz), her whirly-twirly mayhem, and the combined dozen or so other dogs, cats, fish, hamsters and birds we’ve owned, he is done with pets of all sorts.

I myself am trying to be done with dogs and cats and pets of all sorts. That’s going well, judging by the fact that I hug, kiss and hold entire conversations with every dog I see.

Oh – and I’m obsessively painting rabbits.

So that's how it came to be that I created a children’s book about house rabbits. I have 13 adorable great nieces and nephews now, and I wanted to make something they would like, something to remember me by.

But be advised: this book is not just for kids. I wrote it with humor adults will enjoy, too, because there just aren’t many kids’ books that are funny for both young and old. It’s a great book for group-reading, bedtime reading – even bathroom reading.  

I’m hoping How to Be a House Bunny is a book that Grandma will enjoy so much that she’ll keep a copy at her house. And the babysitter will like it so she should keep one at her house. And you will love it so you should keep one at your house. In fact, I recommend a copy for everyone’s house!

And all of your bathrooms.

 

How to Be a House Bunny, available here.