In MR. AND MRS. BUNNY: Detective's Extraordinaire!, everyone's favorite rabbit couple spent their time hunting for lost parents and controlling their hatred for marmots. In LORD AND LADY BUNNY, they decide they want new, more "royal" professions, and travel to England to make it happen. In this article, Mrs. Bunny tells Kidsreads how her life has changed since becoming a Lady, from wearing fancy hats to chiding Mr. Bunny for talking to the furniture.
As I sit here pen in hand, carrot cake cupcakes and pot of carrot tea before me, I wonder what those on Kidsreads would most like to know about Mr. and Mrs. Bunny. Of course, it is how their lives have changed since becoming Lord and Lady Bunny. WE ARE! WE ARE! WE REALLY ARE! And Mrs. Bunny even has a CROWN!
All right, I wasn’t supposed to leak that. Oh dear. It is so hard to be a guest writer. I said to Mr. Bunny this morning, would you like to do half the guest post? We could share a pot of tea and give away all our friends’ secrets! NO! NO! MRS. BUNNY DIDN’T MEAN THAT! Mr. Bunny eschewed this idea anyway. He has become very eschewy since getting his title. Right now he is going about the garden watering things and peeking over Mrs. Bunny’s shoulder, periodically reading what she has written so far and making unhelpful comments.
“The Bunnys have not changed a bit. That is their charm. They are Bunnys through and through to the core and forever and no more nonsense about titles and such what,” said Mr. Bunny.
Mrs. Bunny can agree with this to a point. Mrs. Bunny really hasn’t changed a bit since 
becoming Lady Bunny. She is the same sweet, modest, well-spoken rabbit she has always been. After all, as she pointed out to Mr. Bunny, Mrs. Bunny has always been a lady. Mr. Bunny has not changed much, except for his new penchant for saying, “my good man” to every person, bunny or inanimate object he encounters. For instance, when Mrs. Bunny asked him to move all the furniture into new and better places, as she does once or twice a week (not once or twice a day as Mr. Bunny claims in his exaggeratey way) Mr. Bunny said to the lamp, “I think you would look better here, my good man.” He said to the rocking chair, “A new home for you, my good man.” He said to the fireplace screen, “You shall remain where you are, my good man.”
Mrs. Bunny does not want to suggest to Mr. Bunny that not everyone, (and she isn’t thinking of any long and fuzzy-eared mates when she says this) is cut out to be titled. Not all heads are made for top hats and tiaras. Not everyone has the necessary patter. She doesn’t suggest that the use of “my good man” is terribly pretentious. She just thinks some of the furniture might possibly be female. She’s just saying.
Mr. Bunny replies that at least he doesn’t ask the citizens of Rabbitville to call him Lord Bunny. Unlike Mrs. Bunny who went to her first hat club meeting after being so dubbed and…..
And here Mrs. Bunny’s editor leaps in to say that Mrs. Bunny may give away all her friends’ secrets but she must keep a few of the new book’s secrets so as not to ruin it for her readers.
“Oh! Oh!” said Mrs. Bunny, who does so love her readers. She had not thought of that!
And she put down her pen, had another carrot cupcake and wondered what Mr. Bunny would do if she had him rearrange the garden just a bit. The carrot patch would really look so much better just over there…..
Polly Horvath has written many books for children that have won awards in both the United States and Canada including a Newbery Honor, National Book Award, the Toronto-Dominion Canadian Children's Award, and The Vicky Metcalf award for her body of work. Her books have been picks of both Rosie O'Donnell and Oprah and have been translated into over twenty five languages.
