You compared your book [lengthwise anyhow] with Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit, Jim. What an interesting choice!, of all the brief books in the world. You might have gone on to her sequential story of The Flopsy Bunnies, where she tells us

"It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'."

The author of your book seems to have been aiming for a similar effect to Mr McGregor's lettuces! Perhaps that was the train of thought which led you to that rather odd analogy?

~M~