Bionic Bunny - The Bionic Bunny Show Book

The Bionic Bunny Show Book

The Bionic Bunny Show (first ISBN 0-316-11120-1) is a children's book by Marc Brown and, Laurene (Laurie) Krasny Brown. It was first published in 1984 by Little, Brown & Co, 12 years before the Arthur television cartoon first aired. Although fictional and drawn as a cartoon, the book attempts to show small children the concept of a television show from behind the scenes, introducing the concept of an actor, showing the steps involved in preparing and shooting an episode, and so forth. The main point of the book was to show children that while television shows may be entertaining, they aren't "real", and that television heroes are really just ordinary people. The book was featured in an episode of Reading Rainbow in 1988. In addition to reading the book, host LeVar Burton also expanded on the book's themes with a behind-the-scenes look at his other series, Star Trek: The Next Generation. After the Reading Rainbow episode aired, a second edition was printed (ISBN 0-316-10992-4) which was even more popular than the first. The Reading Rainbow episode was also released on video, including as a set with the book. Later, the book was reissued yet again (ISBN 0-8085-3762-8) in 1999.