While part of the Bunnicula series, this one stands alone if you haven’t read the others (I hadn’t). It’s a humorous book filled with a few beautiful illustrations. As their perception of danger increases, so does their impulsiveness. The puppy is naive and the older dog is reluctant, but always endearing and protective.Ī classic, bumbling adventure story, the three wreak some havoc. The cat is intelligent, aloof and full of bad ideas. The personalities are true to how these types of animals are often perceived. The three strong personalities create a lively push-and-pull dynamic. Naturally, Chester the cat is the one pulling the strings, but Howie is ever-enthusiastic to charge full speed ahead. It’s a lot to take on, but they’re up to the task. It’s up to Harold, Howie and Chester to stop Bunnicula before he bites and enslaves every vegetable in town. Then Bunnicula goes missing and the family is too distracted to notice.
The logic is sound when you consider that there have been an unusually high number of white vegetables popping up, white because they’ve had the life juices sucked out of them, of course. The story is about one family’s well-meaning, dramatic, paranoid pets (Harold the dog and narrator, Howie the dachshund puppy and Chester the cat) who have reason to believe the family’s rabbit is a vegetable-sucking vampire rapidly turning the town’s gardens into a ravenous horde of zombies. Indeed, there was nothing in the elements to foreshadow the events that lay ahead. This is my first Bunnicula book and I didn’t know what to expect, but I loved the opening: You can tell this copy has been read many times, which is fitting for a children’s classic.
They’re so fragile they sound like they may crack. The pages of this copy are golden and dark around the edges.
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