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This is Ria.

Welcome to Little Stories for Tiny People. Books. What can I say? I love them. Always have. I love the feel of the pages. I always read physical books. There's just something special about holding a book in your paws. I mean, hands. Well, in this story,

pause does fit, because it's about a rabbit. Let's hear it. It's called Dorothy joins a book club.

Take it away, Costa and Birdie Bay.

Remember, there are no pictures.

You have to imagine the pictures in your mind.

You can imagine them however you want.

Okay, here we go.

I didn't know you were a reader.

Dorothy nearly missed this comment, which came from over her shoulder as she sat beneath the shade of her favorite tree,

hunched over a large book, splayed in her lap.

She had her paw on the page, and she moved it along beneath each word, concentrating with great intensity, but though she nearly missed the comment, she didn't entirely.

Rabbits cannot afford to completely block out their surroundings, not with so many potential

predators around.

Dorothy's ear twitched with the recognition that someone had addressed her, and she tore herself from the book in her lap.

Oh, hello. There, behind her, was a rabbit she'd seen a time or two out and about. They'd had a few pleasant conversations, brief but friendly.

Dorothy could not recall the rabbit's name.

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