If you can catch a hare
and look into its eye,
you will see the whole world…

—Anna Crowe, “A Calendar of Hares”
from A SECRET HISTORY OF RHUBARB (Mariscat, 2004)
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"Uncle Remus might well have heard of [El-Ahrairah]. For that matter, Odysseus himself might have borrowed a trick or two from the rabbit hero, for he is very old and was never at a loss for a trick to deceive his enemies."
- Richard Adams, "Watership Down"
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'This is a fierce bad Rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail. (...)
The bad Rabbit would like some carrot. He doesn't say "Please." He takes it!'
The Story of A Fierce Bad Rabbit (1906), Beatrix Potter. www.gutenberg.org/files/45265/... @gutenberg.org #BookWormSat

“Am I ridden with a Welsh goat too? ’Tis time I were chok’d with a piece of toasted cheese.”
Shakespeare, THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, 5.5

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#WelshRarebit #WelshRabbit
#Wales🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

"Of all of the beasts in the world, I'm the best!
On land, and on sea...even up in the sky
No animal lives who is better than I!"

Rabbit in 'The Big Brag' by Dr. Seuss (1958) #InternationalRabbitDay #BookwormSat

“Little Bunny Foo Foo,
Hopping through the forest,
Scooping up the field mice,
And bopping them on the head.”
Anonymous, LITTLE BUNNY FOO FOO (Children’s Poem), Stanza 1
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#FieldMice #GoodFairy

“All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you.....Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.”

― Richard Adams, Watership Down

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"The hare limp'd trembling through the frozen grass"

- John Keats, 'The Eve Of St Agnes'
(Painting by Bruno Liljefors, 1905)
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"He wuz tryen fer ter fling Brer Rabbit off'n his back."

Illustration by Ernest Griset, for an Uncle Remus story by Joel Chandler Harris, included in GLEAMINGS FROM POPULAR AUTHORS, 1895.

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The field mice spent their days scampering through the tall grasses and collecting fairyberries and beanstalk seeds. The stable mice helped themselves to oats and barley from the horse stalls, and built nests of straw from the Pegasus pen

Suzanne Selfors, Once Upon A Pet
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"Flopsy, Mopsy and Cotton-tail, who were good little bunnies went down the lane to gather blackberries. But Peter, who was very naughty, ran straight away to Mr. McGregor’s garden and squeezed under the gate!" ~ The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902), Beatrix Potter.
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“…as mad as a March hare.”
Shakespeare, THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN, 3.5
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“Sheriff More, give me thy hand, keep thy promise now for the king’s pardon, or, by the Lord, I’ll call thee a plain coney-catcher.”
Shakespeare, SIR THOMAS MORE, 2.4
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“I’m Eddie Valiant, private eye. You the one who called?” “Yes, I am,” he said, extending a fuzzy white paw. “I’m Roger Rabbit.” His words came out encased in a balloon that floated over his head. ~ 'Who Censored Roger Rabbit?' (1981), Gary K. Wolf.
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'Once you are Real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always.'

Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit

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🎨 Michele Mikesell, Moon Rabbit

Apparently it’s #InternationalRabbitDay

So, have a book rabbit

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WHO CENSORED ROGER RABBIT? – a mystery novel by Gary K. Wolf (1981), later adapted into the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).

This cover image depicts Wolf as the protagonist Eddie Valiant, as did the cover of the first edition of the book. #BookWormSat