This Is Not a Carrot

Dylan Hewitt

It all begins with a hungry rabbit who finds a beautiful orange carrot on the first page. When he bites into it he realizes that it is made of paper and will not feed him. So he decides to move forward to calm his rumbling belly. The second carrot he finds is just a black and white drawing: it can even be erased. The third is giant and floats in the sky: fake, too. Only when he sees a meadow and a cow, too real to be drawn, does he think he has solved it. But it is the cow that reveals the real truth to him: they are not drawings but photos and above all it makes him reflect on the fact that he too is fake, made of paper! Here is the solution: if he is made of paper, so will his hunger, which the drawn carrots will be able to feed. It all ends with a binge.