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Doctor Goldbunny
Valerie Haynes, author
The Adventure Begins in Book One...
Leopard Goldbunny is magically born in a community of animals now able to speak English. There he learns the ancient natural healing arts from his grandmother, but he decides to go a step further and become the first animal to go to a human medical school— Georgetown University in Washington. He successfully completes his studies, only to be denied his degree due to secretive forces threatened by his power to promote the rights of animals.
Undaunted, Leopard sets out to prove himself by searching for a lost healing herb for his longtime friend, a girl named Flora, whose doctors have pronounced her illness “incurable.” He takes Flora and his newly-adopted 100 bunnies to the rumbling, “dormant” volcano, Mt. Ararat, where they find not only a healing plant (an ancient tree, “Asherah”), but the Ark of Noah, frozen in a deep crevasse.
Many adventures ensue, and precede, involving, among others: C.A.T., a cat with many identities, who infiltrates the human world and stirs up mischief; General Undowar, the world’s leading military strategist, who flies Leopard’s party to Mt. Ararat in his not-quite-perfected experimental jet, and who later is disturbed to learn of the formation of a nefarious conglomerate called NECRO; Joshua, a French-Canadian-Inuit boy who wants to save the Arctic animals from corporate plundering; a group of Insects that are out to destroy Aftericide; and the ubiquitous Mr. Tentacle, who owns Aftericide Corp., Lethality Research, Bunnysoup Automated Rabbit Farm Industries (BARFIES), NECRO, and just about everything else, and is certain to get his comeuppance by the end of the trilogy.
But Leopard’s great discovery on his mission is that the Earth is a living thing...and that it has a disease.