A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver staffer Twiss debuts with an accomplished parody of Charlotte and Karen Pence%E2%80%99s Marlon Bundo%E2%80%99s Day in the Life of the Vice President (Regnery Kids). Bow tie-wearing bunny Marlon Bundo lives with his %E2%80%9Cgrampa,%E2%80%9D Vice President Mike Pence, %E2%80%9Cin an old, stuffy house on the grounds of the U.S. Naval Observatory.%E2%80%9D He is lonely and bored until the day he falls in love with bunny Wesley: %E2%80%9CHe was bunny-beautiful.%E2%80%9D Readers are sure to agree: Wesley is floppy-eared, butterscotch colored, and wears a geeky-chic pair of blue eye glasses. After a perfect day together, Marlon and Wesley announce plans to marry. Animal friends, including a badger, a bejeweled turtle, and a hedgehog, work together to defeat%E2%80%94via casting their ballots%E2%80%94the Stink Bug, an impish green figure in a suit and tie who insists that %E2%80%9CBoy Bunnies Don%E2%80%99t Marry Boy Bunnies!%E2%80%9D While the most likely readers will initially be the adults who pick up on the allusions to Trump-era politics, there%E2%80%99s much for kids to like in Keller%E2%80%99s (a pseudonym of Gerald Kelley) funny, earnest cast of anthropomorphic animals. A portion of proceeds from sales go to the Trevor Project and AIDS United. Ages 5%E2%80%938. (Mar.)