The Moonbunny by Lissy Kurlander
Intro:
Not everyone may know this, but
there are bunnies that live on the moon. They are called moonbunnies and they
aren’t a normal bunny at all. They have very big, tall ears, which they can use
to fly, and they glow in the dark at nighttime. Moon bunnies live on the
craters of the moon and eat marshmallows. There is one particular moonbunny I
want to tell you about…
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Once there was a moonbunny named
Spazzy and he lived in a moon crater with his momma, daddy and fifteen brothers
and sisters. He was the littlest of all
of the moonbunnies and yet he had the largest ears. Often times his fifteen
brothers and sisters would laugh at him because of his ears. All of them had
normal moonbunny sized ears, but not Spazzy...
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He would try and play tag or hide
and seek with them, but it just wouldn’t work. If they played tag, Spazzy would
just trip over his ears and get crater dust in them. If they played hide and
seek, he had trouble staying hidden because his ears would stick out. “Look at
Spazzy!” they all would laugh. “He doesn’t know how to hide at all!” “Yes I
can!” he would protest as he tried to pull his ears in the hole where he was
hiding.
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One
of Spazzy's favorite things to do was to look at the earth from the moon. He
would sit atop one of the crater rocks and gaze off at the little blue and
green planet. “I wish I could fly to earth and see what it is like,” he would say
to himself. “I think it would be fun to go on an adventure like that all by
myself!” Whenever he asked his daddy or momma what it was like they would tell
him there were strange creatures called “earth-bunnies” and other strange
creatures that walked on two legs instead of four. This made Spazzy even more
curious.
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One day, Spazzy decided that he
would go to earth and see for himself what it was like. As he walked to the
edge of the moon, his fifteen brothers and sisters asked teasingly, “Spazzy? Don't
trip over your ears!” “I'm going on an adventure!” he replied. And with that, he jumped off the moon and
with his big ears, he began to fly towards earth. Back on the moon, his brothers
and sisters could just make out his small form glowing in the distance. “He really
is crazy!” they said and went back to their game of hide and seek.
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When Spazzy had reached earth, he
sat there and stared at his surroundings. There was this itchy green stuff on
the ground everywhere and strange things that started on the ground but were
very tall and leafy on top. There were also white puffy things in the sky that
looked like marshmallows to Spazzy. He had never seen grass, trees, or clouds
before. “This isn’t like the moon at all!” he said to himself and he hopped
around a bit. “Where are the craters? Why is it so bright out?”
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As Spazzy hopped along, while
tripping over his oversized ears, he came upon two strange little creatures
that looked a little bit like him. They looked like a moonbunny but their ears
were much shorter and smaller. “Hello? What are you?” he asked. “Are you earth-bunnies?”
One of them stood up on his hind legs and replied, “I'm a rabbit! WHAT ARE
YOU?” “I'm a moonbunny,” Spazzy answered. “A WHAT?” the second rabbit asked. “A
moonbunny!” he repeated.
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“You are the strangest rabbit I
have ever seen!” the first rabbit said, hopping around Spazzy. “Why are your
ears so big?” “I don’t know. Why are your ears so small?” Spazzy asked. “Come
and eat some cabbage with us!” the second rabbit invited. (You see, rabbits
really are kind and like to make friends with anyone they meet). Spazzy hopped
over to her and when he took a bite of the cabbage, he spat it back out.
“What's the matter moonbunny? Don't you eat veggies like all rabbits do?” they
asked. Spazzy shook his head and explained that moonbunnies ate marshmallows,
not vegetables.
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“You really are a strange
rabbit,” the second rabbit admitted. “Let's play tag!” She was it first and
when Spazzy tried to run away, he tripped over his large ears, fell into a
little heap, and got the itchy green stuff in his ears. As he got back up, they
asked again, “Why are your ears so big?” Spazzy said that he used them to fly.
“Is that how you got here?” the first rabbit asked and Spazzy nodded. When the
sun started to go down, Spazzy began to glow in the dark, causing his new
friends to jump back in horror.
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“What's wrong with you!?” one of
them asked. “Why are you glowing?” Spazzy said, “I always glow in the dark. How
come you don't?” They had no reply to that question. “You're not sick or
anything?” they asked, coming back over to him. “You didn’t eat anything
strange?” He shook his head and they all went back to playing rabbit games
among the fire flies.
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It was then that Spazzy began to
miss his moon crater home, his parents, his fifteen brothers and sisters, and
the marshmallows they ate every day. “I think I better go back home to the
moon,” he said to his two friends. “Earth isn’t a good place for a moonbunny.”
His two friends were sad that he had to go and begged him to stay and play some
more. “I'm sorry but I really have to go back,” he said and with that jumped
into the air and with the help of his big ears, Spazzy began to float back home
to the moon.
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When he got back home to the
moon, his brothers and sisters said, “You're back! You’re back!” Spazzy nodded
and when his momma and daddy asked him how his adventure was, he replied, “I
realized that I am special just the way I am made and that being different isn't such a big deal.”
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They were all happy to have him home safe and sound. As
Spazzy sat there, eating his marshmallow dinner, he realized that there is no
place like home.
The End.
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