There’s nothing in this world worse than unrequited love – unless it’s unrequited bunny love. That’s the saddest thing of all.
Our main characters are Valentino and Valenteeny – called Tino and Teeny for short. They are bunny rabbits, and they live near each other, each in their own little burrow. Only a stream separates them. Every so often, they would look over at each other with lots of admiration, but they were too shy to actually go over and talk.
One day Tino had the idea that he would write a letter to Teeny and put it in the hollow log by the stream. Then she could read it, and it would be much less awkward than striking up a whole conversation. So he wrote a nice letter and put it in the log.
Meanwhile, Teeny decided to write a letter of her own. (Great minds do think alike, you know, even if they are hare-brained. I’m sorry – couldn’t help it.) She left her letter in the log as well, and scampered on home because it was starting to rain.
As the rain came down even harder, the mouse family decided to find a drier place to wait out the storm. They all went into the hollow log and saw the two letters. Paper is perfect bedding for a mouse, so they ripped the letters to shreds and made themselves some very comfy beds.
When the storm ended, the mice came out, and saw Tiny and Teeny crying their little bunny eyes out. Neither of them had gotten an answer to their letter!
The mice were wracked with awful guilt. They took the shreds of letters and pieced them together to make a whole new message for the bunnies. It didn’t make as much sense grammatically as the original letters, but it did the trick, and they lived hoppily ever after. (Now, that wasn’t my fault – the book said it first.)
This book was published in 2006 by The Chicken House and was illustrated by Caroline Jane Church.
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