Battle Bunny

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When it comes to defending humanity against the Primordians, nobody knows better than Battle Bunny Tibbers how to fight like an animal!

Kids will crack-up at Alex's clever editing of the original illustrations, which takes adorable forest creatures and turns them into evil mechanisms of unbridled mayhem. Alex’s gleeful disregard for the inanity of Birthday Bunny belies a deep engagement with the words in the book, an active participation with the structures of literacy that acts as a rebellious model for kids just starting to read on their own. This deliciously subversive piece of metafiction skewers--with sharp wit and a sharper pencil--the earnest, purposeful literature so popular in the middle of the last century.They range in ages from 21-26 but they remember being kids and appreciate reading books with multi-tiered humor now.

All this begs the question: Is this book good in its own right or is this just a case of cleverness for cleverness’s sake? Alex even goes so far as to apply his editorial skills to the book's copyright page, with some highly amusing results.Units within a certain distance of a commander untit (depending on race) can then perform extra actions depending on their race. Even the first shot of the bunny hero of this book, which an initial glance would appear to be free of Alex’s shenanigans, hides a couple “improvements” here and there. The first time I read this book, I fell in love with it and its clever, subversive changing of a benign and rather trite birthday book into a story of an evil rabbit and his plan to destroy the forest.