Bunnicula is a children's book series written by James Howe, featuring a vampire rabbit that sucks the juice out of vegetables. Alternatively, Bunnicula is the main title of the first book in the series, published by Atheneum Books in April 1979. The husband-and-wife team James and Deborah Howe wrote it together, but she died before it saw print. The series consists of seven books, with the latest published in 2006. An animated series adaptation of Bunnicula began airing on Cartoon Network and on Boomerang on February 6, 2016.