I finished reading this book to David the night before last. It’s one I
hadn’t read before; my sister bought it for Dave some months ago, because
my niece had loved it once upon a time. I was initially skeptical: a
vampire bunny that sucks the juice out of vegetables? But the name of
the third Bunnicula book (The Celery Stalks at Midnight)
encouraged me to give it a try.

Let’s see: the Monroe family find a young rabbit at the movie theater (a
showing of Dracula) and bring it home. The family cat,
Chester, is concerned; the rabbit sleeps all day and gets up only at
night, has fangs, and the family has been finding eerie white vegetables,
sucked dry of all juice and color, on the kitchen floor. The rabbit is
clearly a vampire! Something must be done! The tale is told by Harold
the family dog.

The book read easily and well, though it’s a real lightweight compared
to what we’ve been reading together. There were a number of good lines,
and a few nifty if offbeat references; Chester the cat, for example, is
named after G.K. Chesterton. How many kids’ books mention
G.K. Chesterton?

So, bottom line: not my favorite, by any means. But David liked it, and
I liked it well enough to pick up the next two books in the series.