Courtney Lynn Michaels has launched a website for her ‘Stewart and Friends’ stories
Courtney Lynn Michaels' close connection to rabbits began back in the 1990s, when on one very snowy night on Highway 144, she unfortunately hit a wild rabbit with her car.
“I was living in an old farmhouse at the time, in the country,” Michaels said. “I was looking out the window one day, and there was a chickadee, and my little bunny was running around the house. He came up to me and stood next to me. He got up on his hind legs. It was like he was having this little conversation with a chickadee outside of the window.”
The stories and songs, which are available as MP3 audio downloads, follow a year in the life of a rabbit and are set back in history, to gentler times. Michaels launched her Stewart the bunny audio project back in the mid-90s, and ended up putting out several cassettes. “Peter Rabbit is naughty,” she said. “Stewart is very curious. He's a very good little rabbit. But he does get into mischief not on his own, but just because things happen.”
“Writers write about what they know,” Michaels said. “Because this is what my world has been years, Stewart types out on an old Underwood typewriter, he uses a candlestick telephone as he's dialing,” complete with the sound effects.
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