Dewey Rabbit's Warren 

Welcome to Elite Publisher's new page featuring Dewey Rabbit and his friends. The purpose of this dynamic page is to help the world get acquainted with the inhabitants of the forest known as Plentora, chronicle the past and future adventures of Dewey Rabbit, and provide insight into the creation of Dewey's world by author RJ Prieto. The Dewey Rabbit novels are written for a wide variety of ages. The adventure aspect of the books and cartoon-like illustrations are meant to appeal to the young readers of ages nine and up. However, the stories contain an emotional undertone that adults relate to very well, starting with Dewey's Christmas Adventure, where Dewey is faced with losing his only child to an illness he can't control.

RJ explains, "I wanted to write a series of books that a mom or dad look forward to reading with their children every bit as much as the children looked forward to listening to or reading themselves. What can be more romantic than a family sitting around the fireplace reading a chapter a night of a story they all relate to in some way?"

Dewey's Christmas Adventure was first released in November 2007, selling over 300 copies in its first year. Dewey may not have sold the farm in his first year, but the response has been overwhelmingly positive. Two television news stations in central Florida did a feature on Dewey during the 2008 Christmas season in addition to numerous online and local newspaper articles. RJ Prieto conducted a book tour of central Florida from September to December where he introduced Dewey to the world. 

"I recognize that Dewey is only beginning his journey," says RJ. "No one knows about him, but they will. Dewey Rabbit has a lot to do. He has a lot to say. I intend to help him in any way I can."

With RJ's words, we now invite you to enter and experience Dewey's world for yourself!

Plentora

Plentora is a forest of plenty located in the heart of Middle America between the Mississippi River and the farming belt in the Great Plains. It's not a tremendously large forest, but it is a relatively undisturbed forest. It's a sanctuary to thousands of animals ranging from large cats and bears to the smallest of mice and moles. There's a large open field near the center of Plentora where many of the animals graze and play. Dewey Rabbit is grazing in this field when we first meet him in chapter 1 of Dewey's Christmas Adventure (2007).

Farmer Jones' field lays to the west of Plentora. It's a major source of food for many of the smaller animals that inhabit the forest, but venturing into Farmer Jones' field does not come without risk. It's guarded by the farmer's mutt, Germs. Dewey and his friends have a hair-raising experience with Germs before they set out on their journey to the North Pole.

Plentora's eastern boundary marks the forest closest points to human civilization. It's also where many of the larger animals tend to live because of higher water content thanks to tributaries flowing into the Mississippi River. Though the eastern boundary is hardly mentioned in Dewey's Christmas Adventure, it will play a huge role in Dewey's destiny. The first signs of this will be evident early in the second Dewey Rabbit novel, Dewey Rabbit and Santa's Secret, scheduled for completion by the fall of 2010.

Dewey Rabbit 

Dewey Rabbit is like most husbands and fathers. He's gentle, warm, and caring when it comes to his family, who is most important to him. We see evidence of what Dewey would go through for his young son, Kyle, in Dewey's Christmas Adventure (2007). He risks his life and his friends while searching for a miracle on a perilous journey to the North Pole in order to save Kyle from a life-threatening illness.

Dewey is much more than the dedicated family man he is portrayed as throughout his initial adventure, however. In reality, he is an ambitious, young rabbit who longs to make a difference. Before and throughout his adventure to the North Pole, Dewey often reflects on a former resident of Plentora named Dexter Rabbit. Dexter became a forest legend when he sacrificed his own life to protect his family from a deadly rattlesnake. Though Dewey never knew Dexter, he craves the same type of notoriety.

What Dewey fails to consider is that the type of fame he seeks comes with a price. In Dewey Rabbit and Santa's Secret (2010), everyone in Plentora knows his name, though he's far from famous. When hunters invade the forest, the Forest Council is undecided about how to handle the intruders. Plentora lacks the strong leadership needed to diffuse the situation. Dewey is thrust into the center of the conflict. Suddenly, the fate of everything he has ever known rests on his shoulders.  To make matters worse, an old enemy devises a plot to destroy Santa Claus once and for all. Dewey Rabbit and his friends hold the secret because they are the only ones who had ever been to the North Pole.

Dewey Rabbit comes of age in Dewey Rabbit and Santa's Secret. After Dewey's Christmas Adventure, he is a forest dweller who everyone knows. By the end of Dewey Rabbit and Santa's Secret, he becomes a Plentoran resident who everyone loves. The question then is whether Dewey can handle the responsibility placed upon him and whether he is willing to sacrifice the ones he loves in order save Plentora?

The answers come when Dewey's real trials begin in a future trilogy called Plentora (2012). The forest finally is subjected to the fate that doomed so many other pristine places. As humans encroach, civil war erupts over natural resources.  The Plentora Trilogy will be the ultimate battle between predator and prey. No one can escape. Not many can be trusted; perhaps not even Dewey Rabbit.

We know him as devoted father. We learn he's also a hero. What is yet to be determined is whether Dewey Rabbit will become the legend he so desires to be...

Mac the Raccoon

Mac is Dewey's best friend. They grew up together and still meet daily in the Plentora grazing field. There isn't much Dewey does outside of his family life that doesn't involve Mac. As a matter of fact, it is Mac who gives Dewey hope that Kyle may receive a miracle by reciting the Christmas story in Dewey's Christmas Adventure. Little does he know that his innocent attempt to comfort Dewey leads to an adventure that nearly costs them all their lives.

Mac is loveable and complex. He lives alone in a hollow, old tree. We see early in Dewey's Christmas Adventure how content he is to maintain his privacy.  He views a trip to the North Pole as anything but thrilling. Though he appears a frightened coward, Mac provides a voice of reason through his insecurity that keeps Dewey's world from spinning into disaster on numerous occasions. It is through Dewey's relationship with Mac that many of the series' themes play out. Mac and Dewey's fates are as intertwined as their life-long friendship.

Charlie Fox

Care-free is the best word that can describe Charlie Fox. He is fearless, impulsive, and determined. After losing his father at a very young age, Charlie lives his life on the edge. He constantly raids the very chicken coupe where his father died playing a game of cat and mouse with Farmer Jones' dog, Germs. Charlie even takes to invading the farmer's house on occasion. Charlie is responsible for planting the seed of hope in Dewey's mind that inspires their adventure to the North Pole in Dewey's Christmas Adventure.

Charlie craves adventure and often puts his own ambitions over the good of those around him. This doesn't diminish his friends' love for him even though he is typically responsible for many of their troubles. In the end, Charlie proves as essential to the Plentora family as anyone one of them. He adds a dimension of comedy and recklessness that is essential to the success of any crazy endeavor.

Mario Hawk

Mario is the life of the party. There is no better way to characterize his personality. He lightens the mood no matter how dire the circumstances become. Only Mario can stare down the jaws of death while in the clutches of a deadly polar bear and still ask for directions to the North Pole.

While Dewey, Mac, and Charlie make up the original trio of friends, Mario becomes a critical addition when he rescues them from an unexpected attack by Germs to kick off their journey in Dewey's Christmas Adventure. If Charlie is the one who constantly gets them into trouble, then Mario is the one who typically bails them out while maintaining his relentless sense of humor.

Not only does Mario serve stress relief times of trouble, he is as wise as anyone in the Dewey Rabbit novels with an extensive knowledge of the geographic world, how it works socially, and an authority on humans, Mario even possesses the ability to read, the lone mystery about him as to how he acquired such a gift. 

Charlie was the one who initiated Dewey's Christmas Adventure, Dewey and Mac bought into it, but Mario was the one who made leaving Plentora even possible. And His role in Plentora only begins with Dewey's Christmas Adventure. He joins the team as a stranger, but leaves as a family member.  The fate of all Plentora may rest on Mario's shoulders in the near future.

Kreel

Every adventure has to have a villain. Kreel is the villain that Dewey and his friends can do without. Known as the most evil polar bear in all of the arctic, no one knows the root of Kreel's hatred except that he is determined to destroy Santa Claus. Dewey doesn't set out to make an enemy out of Kreel, but Kreel discovers their destination is the North Pole in Dewey's Christmas Adventure. He will stop at nothing to keep Dewey and his friends from reaching it.

In Dewey Rabbit and Santa's Secret, Kreel hatches a plot to end the belief in Santa Claus once and for all. He recruits the most evil team of bears in the northern territories to help him carry out his scheme. When Dewey discovers that Kreel is behind it, he has no choice but to stop the mighty polar bear even if it means returning to a land that nearly cost him his life. Unfortunately, Kreel stays a step ahead of the brave Plentoran creatures by taking out an insurance policy against anyone who tries to stop him.

Additional Character Profiles Coming Soon:

Helga                                Santa Claus

Kyle Rabbit                       Jolly

Jenny Rabbit                     Germs

Professor Wise                  Chester Fox

Doc Owl                                       

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