Listen and read-along with this sweet poem by, MaryLou Manzik.

I have a secret, I’ve kept it with care

      Now you be the keeper of this secret I share

My garden is home to a rare reading rabbit 

      Reading alone is his nature and habit

A rabbit imagined from resin and paint

      Quietly reading without a complaint

With a book on his lap, pages firm, not a tear

      And his ears bent back as he sits in a chair

The chair growing moss, in the shade of a fern
 
     He reads the day long, though a page doesn’t turn
                
But as night spreads its magic, a dim quiet way

      A page softly turns for the coming new day

About the Author

MaryLou is a fiction writer of children’s short stories and poems. Her short story, Stowa’s Magic, appeared in Smarty Pants Magazine in fall 2021.  She is a member of Arts Escape’s Writing Forum for Children and Young Adult writers. MaryLou has a background in speech and language therapy, copyediting and proofreading.