MR. AND MRS. BUNNY
DETECTIVES EXTRAORDINAIRE!
By Polly Horvath
Illustrations by Sophie Blackall

It should be noted that this extraordinary tale is written by Mrs. Bunny and translated from the original Rabbit in which it was written by Polly Horvath.

Madeline lives on Hornby Island, Vancouver, British Columbia with her hippie parents Flo and Mildred. Madeline to the dismay of her parents was not into the hippie lifestyle and in fact went to a public school! At the public school Madeline was looked at as an oddity as well. Madeline’s Uncle Runyon was the only member of her extended family who lived in Canada legally as he was employed by the Canadian government as a decoder scientist!

When Madeline’s parents are kidnapped by band of foxes, Madeline is beside herself. Uncle Runyon is her only hope but he is ill and falls into a coma. With no one able to decode the file card that she found at her house Madeline worries about what will happen to her parents. As Madeline sits outside Uncle Runyon’s mansion Mr. and Mrs. Bunny find her. Madeline soon discovers that she has the ability to speak rabbit and her story of woe is soon told. To Madeline’s delight Mr. and Mrs. Bunny tell Madeline that they are detectives and will soon get her parents back for her. What Mr. and Mrs. Bunny neglect to tell Madeline is that they decided to become detectives just that day!

The Bunny’s decide that it is imperative to decode the file card that Madeline found so they take the card to The Marmot. But The Marmot loses the file card and can not remember what he was able to decode. Madeline decides to hypnotize The Marmot and they discover that the file card is lost forever.

The quest to save Madeline’s parents takes on a serious tone when a letter arrives at the Bunny’s home and it is signed, “The Enemy.” Time is running out, can Madeline, Mr. and Mrs. Bunny save Flo and Mildred before they become finger food? With the help of the entire Bunny community Madeline’s parents are rescued and are as completely useless as before their capture.

MR. AND MRS. BUNNY DETECTIVES EXTRAORDINAIRE is a humorous take on a totally dysfunctional family that fans of Dav Pilkey’s style of writing should enjoy.

The publisher provided a Digital ARC for the purpose of this review.