But the newborn had a 2 1/2 year old sister. She would need a toy too. So, I got her a little bunny.

But then I realized that the newborn wouldn't get the floppy bunny. His older sister would get it. The big bunny was closer in size to the older sibling, anyway. The newborn might not see either bunny. So, I got the newborn some noisy plastic chain links.

Maybe the older sibling would let the younger have the bunny if she felt it was the right thing to do. So I wrote a story with the bunnies and the chain, and a pretty blatant message that helping is rewarding.

I posed the bunnies on a pillow and wrote the story in about two hours, and then printed a color booklet to send off with the gifts. A day later, I put the story on the Web.

I don't know if the story has been effective. Next time I visit my friends, I'll see who has which bunny.

I took "pictures" through a video camera with Snappy Snap Shot, a video frame grabber that attaches to a Windows machine's parallel port. This created JPEG images which were linked into HTML pages by hand.

I hope you enjoy the story.

Gary Perlman