The year is 1996 and the quietly exceptional Miss Clover Lightfoot is terribly behind with her preparations for the opening performance of the school play, which must take place while the school is being inspected; an inspection that will result in murder. Only Miss Lightfoot’s finely-honed teaching abilities, the support of her colleagues and Pudding, the class rabbit, can help her to solve the crime and save the day.
(No fictional children or bunny rabbits were harmed in the writing of this book)
"Clover watched the rest of the show with an air of mild detachment. She observed that the children’s interpretation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream had been rather overtaken by the idea that people could be turned into donkeys. There was a common agreement in the small group of boys responsible for the scene, that many, if not all, of the challenges faced by Oberon, King of the Fairies, could be laid to rest by the wholesale transformation of inconvenient persons into mules. This treatment was summarily applied to all the principal characters of the play until a triumphant Oberon found himself the owner of a small herd. The only disadvantage in this scenario for Oberon was that the donkeys’ notorious stubbornness required him to discipline them by unceremoniously kicking them on their rear ends. This, the boys had explained to Clover, was poetic justice that functioned on the much-discussed ‘many levels of meaning’ that she had urged them to explore."
(No fictional children or bunny rabbits were harmed in the writing of this book)
"Clover watched the rest of the show with an air of mild detachment. She observed that the children’s interpretation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream had been rather overtaken by the idea that people could be turned into donkeys. There was a common agreement in the small group of boys responsible for the scene, that many, if not all, of the challenges faced by Oberon, King of the Fairies, could be laid to rest by the wholesale transformation of inconvenient persons into mules. This treatment was summarily applied to all the principal characters of the play until a triumphant Oberon found himself the owner of a small herd. The only disadvantage in this scenario for Oberon was that the donkeys’ notorious stubbornness required him to discipline them by unceremoniously kicking them on their rear ends. This, the boys had explained to Clover, was poetic justice that functioned on the much-discussed ‘many levels of meaning’ that she had urged them to explore."
