Behind the Pages: The Dumb Bunnies' Easter • Go To Book Description
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Part 3: The Story
Even though it says on the covers that Sue Denim wrote the books, they were actually written by Dav Pilkey. "Sue Denim" was supposed to be a joke, but nobody got it...

Anyway, Dav (who REALLY wrote these stories) started writing each book by trying to come up with a series of funny gags, then tying all the gags together into a story.

Usually, Dav begins writing his stories by hand, so he can draw while he writes. Here are some pages from his very first draft of The Dumb Bunnies' Easter.

Dav wrote The Dumb Bunnies and The Dumb Bunnies' Easter at the same time. You might notice in some of the following pages that there was a FOURTH Dumb Bunny (Grandpa Bunny) who appeared in the earlier drafts. Grandpa Bunny was supposed to be a character who would interrupt each book with a really stupid story that made no sense whatsoever.

This character was finally deleted after Dav decided that Grandpa's stupid stories slowed down the narrative of the books. Sorry, Grandpa. After the stories were hand-written, Dav typed each story.

Then he began re-writing...

And re-writing...

And re-writing...

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