Life. Get One.

It's Happy Bunny #2

by Jim Benton

It's all about the bunny. Deal with it.
Just in time for graduation, Scholastic presents a full-color gift book based on the most successful art brand of 2003, It's Happy Bunny!

Everyone's favorite bunny with attitude presents words of wisdom for all life's endeavors, like:

When life gives you lemons, squirt lemon juice into the eyes of your enemies.

Is the glass half-empty or half-full? Who cares? Learn to focus on the things that truly matter--like yourself and money. In this charming collection of ancient bunny wisdom, you'll find painfully honest twists on age-old advice as Happy Bunny shares the secrets to a happy and rewarding life. YEAH, RIGHT.

Genres: Humor, Fiction, Picture Books, Dark Humor, Adult, Young Adult

72 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 2008

About the author

Benton began his career in a custom design t-shirt shop where he started designing his own characters. At the same time, Jim did illustrations and artwork for magazines and newspapers. People magazine named him "the most visible cartoonist in America" .

Benton also created greeting cards and worked in the magazine and publishing industry. In 1998, his SpyDogs characters became an animated series, The Secret Files of the Spy Dogs, that aired on Fox Kids. Licensing his own creations brought them widespread attention on products, such as It's Happy Bunny, The Misters, Just Jimmy and more.

Benton currently lives in Michigan, where he operates out of his own studio.

Reviews

[Christopher Hicks · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love happy bunny books!! So sarcastic and funny.

[Brianne · Rating 3 out of 5]

I first read this a few years ago and it still makes me chuckle. I'd recommend it for a nice, super light read.

[Joy Brown · Rating 2 out of 5]

: This book cracked me up and had me laughing at first but all in all I’m not sure how good a read it actually was. The bunny is very critical and sarcastic. He basically tells graduates that life after school stinks and is full of weirdo’s. The bunny basically cares only for him self and is very self-centered. There are several comments about ugly people which I did not approve of because each person is beautiful in their on way. He even encourages you to take from others and to basically except that you are bad and will choice the wrong path in life. He wants you to only consider yourself and no one else. This is one bad rabbit who doesn’t have a clue as to what happy is! This book is meant to be funny, but with an adolescent it could be misleading.

[melhara · Rating 5 out of 5]

I got this as a gift back in 2008 for my grade 8 graduation and I loved it. I was a pretty big Happy Bunny fan back then. In fact, I still have a Happy Bunny poster hanging on my wall (that's been there for more than 10 years) and a box of Happy Bunny Christmas cards sitting on my desk (which is probably just as old. I'm kind of a hoarder).

Anyways, what I'm trying to say is that bunny humour/wisdom is for all ages. And to all of you who are graduating from elementary-, middle-, high-, grad-, med-, law-, and whatever-school, I will share with you the following bunny words of wisdom:

"All good things must come to an end. But school does, too."

[Robert Beveridge · Rating 4 out of 5]

Jim Benton, It's Happy Bunny: Life. Get One. (Scholastic, 2005)

So cynical, and so hilarious. Happy Bunny has been popping up all over the lunch boxes and book bags of children in the past few years, and I figured I'd see what all the fuss was about. Turns out that where there's smoke, there's certainly a good deal of fire in this case; I couldn't stop laughing. My twelve-year-old and I kept reading pages to one another. Probably not the best if you want your kid to grow up in the land of hearts and flowers, but for those of us who live in the real world, it's a clever-- and very funny-- educational tool about the people who are out to screw you over (i.e., everyone who isn't you). ****

[Edward Creter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Happy Bunny has a name that's as self-explanatory as it is hypocritical, at times. So the Funny Bunny shares his secrets of walking the path of enlightenment (HIS enlightenment, actually) with enlight-hearted quotes developed with the help of Jim Benton, creator of Dear Dumb Diaries and Franny K. Stein. He spreads his joy (in hurting others), peace (thru superior firepower if need be) and happiness (in seeing smarter people fall!) with witticisms that have already mad him a fan favorite. But PLEASE! DO NOT take him seriously! It's not the I Ching! It's the Chinny-Chin-Ching! And it's FUN!!!

[Jenny · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a book. Unless you don't read. Then it's a coaster.

It's Happy Bunny offers his sage advice about life ("The world does not revolve around me. It's the whole stupid universe that revolves around me"), family ("You can chose your friends, but you can't chose your family... but you CAN chose the asylum where you put them all away"), and other topics. There's an evilness quiz, relationship advice, and much more.

Highly recommended for *those* nights on the reference desk...

[Hello Kitty · Rating 4 out of 5]

Its happy bunny life get one is a book about a little rabbit called happy bunny and in this book you find out that the better things in life comes to you so you should not try to live everybody elses life because there life is the same as your life.

[Bubbles · Rating 5 out of 5]

its happy bunny life get one is a book about a little bunny called happy bunny and in this book you find out that the better things in life comes to you so you should not try to live everybody elses life because their life may be as bad as yours.

[Terry · Rating 3 out of 5]

Happy Bunny provides a humorous, though cynical view of the world. I did not find it as laugh-out-loud funny as some of Jim Benton's other works, but any book by this author is worth a try. Plus, it's a pretty short book.

[Lauren · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book makes the very common mistake of confusing insult comedy (a rarity done well) and insulting without wit. There were a couple pages that elicited a chuckle, but most were just eye roll-worthy.

[Sandy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is so funny. Meant to be for graduates but I recommend this for everyone. The bunny has some great information and inspiration. But don't trust the jerk chicken. I mean the chicken who is a jerk.

[Denise · Rating 5 out of 5]

Never has the theory of life been so simply put. "Life Get One" has made me weep and laugh at the same time. Thank you Happy Bunny!

[Hannah]

THIS IS HILARIOUS! Funny ways of how to show on how to be well... just like happy bunny!

[Kate · Rating 4 out of 5]

Who'd have thought a cynical, rude book like this would be so funny? And so...true!

[Luke · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another funny "It's Happy Bunny" book. Happy Bunny's sarcasm is unsurpassable in hilarity!

[Lady Entropy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Still every bit as amazing and hillarious as the first.

[Rob · Rating 5 out of 5]

Happy Bunny for President! This is a must read!

[melissa · Rating 4 out of 5]

A quick, snarky read. Fun, but not worth spending money on.

[Belkis · Rating 2 out of 5]

It reminds me of my childhood which is the reason I picked it up at the library.

[RL · Rating 3 out of 5]

Surely, there were funny parts and smart one-liners.

[Jennifer · Rating 3 out of 5]

Perfect for people that need a life. A humorous read too with fun little quizzes.

[Isabella Starvaggi · Rating 3 out of 5]

I LOVE happy bunny!
SO awesome!
SO funny!
SO dumb!

[Nav · Rating 3 out of 5]

Life advice for the narcissistic and/or morally askew. It's sarcastic and funny and on point for the Happy Bunny brand. If you're not familiar with Happy Bunny but are a Brooklyn 99 fan then best description might be a Gina Linetti vibe. It's rife with witticisms like "You can't choose your family, but you can choose the insane asylum you send them to." which you aren't meant to actually live by (even if you have especially tiresome relatives) but can still take some wisdom/comfort from. You may be unable to choose your blood family but you can choose your reactions. That quote actually struck me as a great writing prompt for a horror story about being wrongfully imprisoned as a lunatic or a slice of life story about the stressful search for an institution to hold a relative in comfort when they are no longer able to care for themselves.

[Nick · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is like Happy Tree Friends but actually funny.

[Stephanie Duerr · Rating 4 out of 5]

Made me chuckle but I couldn't play the games because it was a Library book

[Gloria · Rating 3 out of 5]

5 stars for nostalgia for sure.

[Jeffrey · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book made me laugh out loud. It also made me feel a little guilty for the meanness in my heart. 15 minutes to read and weeks of snicker inducing remembrances. My favorite? "We must never, ever be mean to stupid people. If we are they might go away. Then who will we laugh at?"