Eddie gets his first library card, and checks out a big red book. When he is reading the book at home, both red covers are completely blank. When he is reading the book at the restaurant where they go for dinner, the front of the book is covered with an illustration and the very large title, "The Christmas Bunny" (an actual book, by William Lipkind with illustrations by Nicholas Mordvinoff, New York: Harcourt, 1953).