All About The Easter
Bunny
Unknown
to the world at large, the Easter Bunny lives deep under the Easter
Island in a vast maze of tunnels and called the Wiggly Warren.
Part of the warren is like a big subterranean village, full of burrows
for him and his helpers and another part is taken up by a highly secret
and magical chocolate factory, where he makes and stores lots of chocolate
eggs.
The
Easter Bunny is very old and very magical. He is white with sparkling
blue eyes and he dresses in a top hat and tails. Every year he
sets out on the night before Easter to deliver Easter eggs to all the
children who have been good. He is helped in this task by the
Easter dragon, (one of the last real dragons left in the world), who
lives in a cave on the other side of Easter Island. The Easter
dragon likes flying the Easter Bunny around on his back on the night
before Easter because it gives him the chance to get out and stretch
his wings. He is very big and very purple, but he never gets spotted
in the sky, because every year before setting off, the Easter Bunny’s
helpers paint him with a magical potion to make him invisible.
Some
of the Easter Bunny’s helpers are Mr Tunneltoes, a mole who is very
good at digging new tunnels and working in dark underground places,
Mr Chocochops, a rather round hedgehog who is the chief chocolate taster
and Potionella, a witch who brews up any magical potions he may need.
There are lots and lots of others.
Down
in the magical chocolate factory there are a number of places you should
know about. First of all, there are large rooms just below the
surface of the ground, where the roots of Milk Chocolate Egg Plants
hang down from the ceilings. From above the ground outside the
factory, these plants look just like ordinary grass but they grow milk
chocolate eggs from the their roots, which the Easter Bunny’s helpers
gather up as soon as they are ripe. Then there are the storerooms,
where all the sweets and chocolates are stored. These are closely
guarded by magical helpers in case anyone tries to steal the eggs before
Easter. Below the storerooms, there are the Silver Paper Mines,
a rocky part of the factory, where magical silver foil of all different
colours is dug out and used to wrap the Easter eggs up and keep them
fresh. Finally, even further down than the mines, there is one
of the most magical places of all. It is called The Meltmarsh
– a deep swamp of warm dark chocolate dotted with little islands where
toffee trees grow. The Easter Bunny didn’t create it, he simply
found it when he dug deep enough, as if it had always been there.
Nobody knows how big it is nor how far it stretches away into the dark.
The Easter Bunny and his helpers take little boats out onto The Meltmarsh
whenever they need dark chocolate and scoop it up by the bucket load.
It is some of the richest dark chocolate in the world!
The
Easter Bunny and his helpers have a great many magical adventures in
the Wiggly Warren and outside it. Who knows what he’s been up
to in the run up to this Easter? But no matter what he’s a stickler
for punctuality, and he’s sure to get those eggs delivered on time.
