Robbie Rabbit At The Zoo

Robbie Rabbit and Pip the Mouse are having a wonderful time in the zoo. They find out that there are more than just rabbits and mice in this world. After the zoo the two friends go to the playground. This is where they discover that they are both a bit brave as well as a bit scared.

Robbie Rabbit loses some of his enthusiasm for the game of hide-and-seek, when he keeps finding other forest creatures instead of his brothers and sisters.

Another tale from gifted storyteller John Lasne, ROBBIE RABBIT is the story of a bunny who unwisely chooses to listen to the Vulture rather than heed his mother's warnings, & who finds out too late that the Vulture's aim is to destroy him. This sobering, powerful story has been well-received by children & applauded by educators. With this drug prevention parable, sympathetic narrator Humphrey Rabbit gives children the message: drug dealers disguise themselves as friends, but they want your downfall. Illustrated in a cartoon style, this 3-color book is 5" X 5" & is the first in NFP's Littlebook series. The next two heartwarming tales in the Littlebook series, STINKY SKUNK (ISBN 0-9642815-5-4) & WOZ, THE BIG-EYE DEER (ISBN 0-9642815-6-2) will be available September 1997. John Lasne's STINKY SKUNK is the story of a lonely skunk whom the other animals avoid. When, however, the forest creatures are threatened by a hungry bobcat, Stinky comes to the rescue--& they all learn important lessons about problem-solving, overcoming differences, & friendship. In WOZ, THE BIG-EYE DEER, by Greg Cordell, a deer endowed with a single, large eye discovers his ability to see "not what things are but what they can be."

This is the story of a young rabbit who finds his passions with the help of a old friend. In the end he finds his confidence and begins a new tradition.

Robbie Rabbit loses some of his enthusiasm for the game of hide-and-seek, when he keeps finding other forest creatures instead of his brothers and sisters.

The Adventures of Robbie Rabbit and Rando Raccoon was written to stimulate a child's imagination and spirit of adventure. It was written many years ago for a friend's child who was sick at the time. This story may never have been published. It has remained in the files of the writer, forgotten for twenty or more years. Today, Robbie Rabbit and Rando Raccoon have finally seen the light, with hopes of bringing renewed excitement and healing powers to many children who may enjoy daydreaming about nature and the animals that surround us all.

At the age of 63, in August 2008, the author withdrew from the practice of law to go back to Kindergarten and observe his wife, Karen, commence her 33rd consecutive year teaching Kindergarten in Room 1 at Grover Beach Elementary School and where, over the next three years, until her retirement in June of 2011, he confirmed her beatific nature, the majesty of her teaching and the beauty of the angels in her care. The one hundred and eighty-four stories in this book are a tribute to a magnificent teacher and her little angels. WHERE ABRAHAM LINCOLN DIED In the week of, and before, Abraham Lincoln's birthday, Karen gave the angels a brief synopsis of the life and importance of Abraham Lincoln, to help explain why he is so revered in American life and forever remembered by the glorious Lincoln Memorial and the national day of celebration to honor his birth. She told them about his childhood in a log cabin; his love of learning, reading by the flickering light of a candle; his prowess as a rail splitter; his exceptional ability as a lawyer; how he became president of the United States; how his leadership won the Civil War; how he freed the slaves; his indelible speeches at Gettysburg and at the second inaugural; and how he was killed just after the war had ended, shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC. Immediately after Karen finished, an inattentive angel asked: "Is he still alive?" Another angel spontaneously responded: "He died at the movies."