The Legendary Rabbit of Death - volume two

By Ræchel Togden

The Rabbit of Death who lives in the Cave of Everlasting Terror, is a kind rabbit who enjoys helping rabbits in need of change. The ways in which he helps are always strange and unexpected: he enables Byron to appreciate the vlaue of his third ear and discover poetry; helps Huberta with her weight problem in a radically unconventional manner; and finally, cures Norbert of naughtiness without crimping his style. Ræchel's wierd tales purvey a heart-warming message: Everyone has an individual genius that can be drawn out under the right circumstances.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Aro Books worldwide
• Release date: May 10, 2021
• ISBN: 9781898185369

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The Legendary Rabbit of Death - volume two

The Legendary Rabbit of Death - volume two

The Legendary Rabbit of Death - Volume Two

Ræchel Togden

2015

Aro Books

worldwide

, PO Box 111, 5 Court Close, Cardiff, Wales, CF14 1JR

© 2015 by by Ræchel Togden

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

First Edition 2015

ISBN: 978-1-898185-34-5 (paperback)

ISBN: 978-1-898185-36-9 (epub)

To my dear brother Robert who gave me good suggestions for my stories, and to my dear friend Ronja.

Foreword

My name is Ræchel Renate Tresise Togden. I wrote this book called The Legendary Rabbit of Death with my dad. I illustrated the stories too. It all started off with drawing rabbits. My dad scanned them and then helped me colour them with Photoshop. I didn’t know anything about Photoshop at first – but my dad showed me how to do lots of things. I learnt more and more with each rabbit. There are lots of good things in Photoshop but it’s not something that is easy unless you have a dad or mum to help you. At first my dad was always saying If you do that you’ll kill the texture, but after a while he didn’t have to tell me that any more. I learnt what the filters did and how to make different layers. I sometimes got mixed up between layers – so it was good to have my dad there to tell me when I was on the wrong layer. My dad and mum are good artists so they always gave me good advice and helped me with my book.

When I’d painted nine rabbits, ’ö-Dzin (one of my parents’ publishers) said he would make a calendar of my rabbits, and so I painted another three. Now the rabbits are on calendars, mugs, and refrigerator magnets. Because people liked my rabbits ’ö-Dzin asked me if I would like to write stories about them.

I said Yes, and my dad said he would help me with typing – because I am very slow and make lots of mistakes.

So then I made up all these stories. I told my dad what was in the stories and he made notes and typed them. My dad helped me a lot by looking up weird and funny names on the internet for me. If I wanted rabbits to have a lot of names that started with the same letter we looked them up together and I chose the ones that sounded good. Sometimes I chose the names because I liked them – and sometimes I chose them because they sounded funny. My dad always liked loony names – or names like Borraccio from Shakespeare. I didn’t want to have a rabbit called Borraccio – but I did use it for one of the hedgehogs who live in the ‘Forest of Grunting Hedgehogs’.

My dad helped me when the story got confused and when I didn’t know how to end it. He gave me ideas and then I could change them round however I liked. Each story took a long time to write because I got tired after an hour and every time we started writing we had to read out the whole story again from the beginning so I’d get ideas for how to write more of the story.

I hope you like these stories because they were good fun to write – even though it was hard work.

Ræchel Renate Tresise Togden

Byron Baudelaire, the Three-eared Rabbit of Poetry

Byron Boris Horace Maurice Baudelaire was a three-eared rabbit. Nobody knew how it happened – that’s just how he was born. There was one on each side and one in the middle. The one in the middle moved to one side or the other depending on what was happening and what needed hearing. So even though he was embarrassed about it, he found it quite useful. No one could creep up on him without his hearing them – because his hearing was so good. He could even hear the rain coming from miles away. When he was asleep on one side he always still had two ears for hearing – so even when he was asleep he could hear everything and wake up very quickly.

Byron liked his three ears at first – but as he got older his extra ear looked stranger and stranger to most other rabbits, and he started to wish that he didn’t have an extra ear. When he was fifteen years old he really wanted to get rid of his extra ear and asked Robert Fiery Foxgloves Mungleberry—the Rabbit of Special Powers—if he could do anything to get rid of it. Robert tried all kinds of things to help – but there was nothing to be done to change it. Robert’s last try at helping was to tie a rotten fish on either side of Byron’s third ear and wrap it in bandages for a week – but that failed.

When the