1.イースターウサギになる夢をもった小さなCottontailウサギは、成長し21匹のウサギを育てながら、夢を実現しました。
年老いた賢者のBunnyにプレゼントされた金の靴で、どのウサギよりも早くイースターエッグを届け続けているでしょう。

2."Someday I shall grow up to be an Easter Burnny:-You wait and see!”

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A story about a mother bunny who overcomes all sorts of steroetypes to become an Easter bunny. She is not only becomes an Easter bunny but plays a very important role to a child. The story teached you that life is going to give you many challenges but the rewards to overcoming these far outweigh the obstacles. I love reading this story time and time again. The illustrations are do beautiful and I find myself wanting to find one of those special Easter eggs every year. ( )

I loved this book as a kid. ( )

A very sweet story about a little girl bunny who wanted to grow up and be the Easter bunny, but everyone told her she couldn't. When she grew up she had 21 babies and everyone told her there was no way. She became the best Easter bunny there ever was. I would use this book for K-6th grade. A great story to read to my class every year around Easter.

I collect children's books. I have thousands of them and I have read many hundreds more. The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes is my favorite one. It doesn't even have any serious competition. I was five years old the first time it was read to me in 1957. I have loved it ever since and have read it to every child who ever sat still around me long enough to hear it. I read it last week to a little boy named Calvin. I just gave a copy of it a few days ago to my friend's brand new baby boy, August.

Author Du Bose Heyward is perhaps better known as the creator of the character Porgy from his 1927 Pulitzer winning play of the same name that went on to inspire the Gershwin brothers' Porgy and Bess, known today as the first great American folk opera. A sickly child who as a toddler lost his father, he grew up with a sensitive and gentle nature and became a talented poet, novelist and playwright.

This wonderful picture storybook, Heyward's only one, is set at Easter time but it focuses more on Spring than on any religious theme. It's message is about love and sharing, compassion, duty and the joy of fulfilling one's responsibilities. It celebrates co-operation, modesty, individual talents, and self-confidence. It affirms the idea that great things can be accomplished if one is willing to give their utmost.

The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes was originally published in 1939 and has never been out of print. Today it is available in both hard cover and paperback formats. It was written in 1938 for the author's five year old daughter, Jenifer. Heyward originally told Jenifer about the country bunny as a bedtime story and one day artist Marjorie Flack, a fellow member of a writers' colony in New Hampshire heard it and excitedly offered to illustrate it. A classic was born!

The story is tenderly told in prose that five to nine year olds will enjoy. There are some full pages of text but there is illustration on facing pages where that occurs and in most cases there are illustrations on both facing pages. There is ample illustration to hold the interest of most children.

The tale begins by correcting the notion that there is only one Easter Bunny. It seems there are actually five. All the mother bunnies raise their children with the idea that if they learn to be wise and kind and swift they may grow up to be one of the five Easter Bunnies.

Next we meet a little brown country girl bunny named Cottontail who is determined that she will one day be in the elite group. "All of the big white bunnies who lived in fine houses and the Jack rabbits with long legs who can run so fast, laughed at little Cottontail and told her to go back to the country and eat a carrot."

Life goes on for the humble little country bunny and one day, as the book says, "much to her surprise" she has twenty-one cottontail babies. Raised with gentle loving guidance the bunnies grow up, each with a special talent and each co-operates to keep the little country cottage where they live clean and neat, harmonious and happy.

Eventually one of the five Easter Bunnies grows too slow to continue in his position and The Old Grandfather Bunny calls everyone together at the Palace of Easter Eggs so a new Easter Bunny can be chosen. It wouldn't be much of a story if Cottontail didn't make the cut. Now would it? How she convinces Grandfather Bunny to choose her is a wonderful part of the story that I will leave for you to discover with some little person you love.

Cottontail ends up with the most arduous and precious task of all on Easter Eve and her selfless efforts and determination bring the little gold shoes in to the picture. I don't want to spoil the story.

The illustrations are utterly delightful. Marjorie Flack has illustrated and written other famous children's books including the Angus series about a little black Scottie dog and Ask Mr. Bear as well as The Story About Ping. She once said that this "is a very pink book" and it is. There is some pink on every page...I think because pink is so new and springy and so innocent and also since this was originally done for a little girl. However, do not be pinkly prejudiced...any child will love this book. The pictures are all in pastels and are done with pen and ink and water colors. The illustrations are brimming with charm and I do mean BRIMMING! The little cottage and all of the 21 bunny children with their special talents are illustrated. We see the Palace of Easter Eggs with it huge halls filled to overflowing with colored eggs. We see the kind Grandfather bunny in his tuxedo with tails and elegant high society bunnies and big strong lumberjack type bunnies. It's grand! I don't know of illustrations that touch me more than these. They have certainly stood the test of time. I love them as much now as I did when this book first enchanted me back in kindergarten. The personality of Cottontail comes to life in these pictures and I remember as a child that I really truly felt privy to the secret world of Easter Bunnies when I looked at them. They are so magical.

Just wait until you see the amazing things that happen when the little Cottontail bunny really comes into her own. I love this book because it makes me feel good...as good each time I open it as it did years ago when I was little. Marjorie Flack and Du Bose Heyward were an artistic match made in heaven and they created a masterpiece together. I hope you'll take advantage of the fact that you can probably find it in any bookstore at this time of year and treat someone to it this Spring. Make some memories. You'll love it. I promise. ( )

This was one of my favorite books when I was younger; mostly, I assumed, because of the mass quantities of bunnies present.

Reading it again as an adult I am reassured as I to why I loved it so. It gives an new and unfettered look at the Easter Bunny and the abilities of women and courage.

The Country Bunny is about a little girl bunny who when she is young wants nothing more than to be one of the respected Easter Bunnies who delivers candy to children all around the world on Easter morning. As she grows up though and has children she has to put her dreams aside. She trains her children to cook and clean and be happy. One day she hears that one of the Easter Bunnies is retiring and takes her children to see the trials for a new Easter bunny. The oldest Easter Bunny sees her there and tests her speed, courage and kindness. The Country Bunny passes with flying colors and becomes an Easter Bunny, but the trials aren't over as she will have to deliver an egg to a very sick boy up a mountain.

She nearly fails but with some encouragement and the help of the oldest Easter Bunny's golden shoes, the Country Bunny is able to bring happiness to the sick little boy on Easter morning.

It's an adorably sweet story with a happy ending, a good message and darling illustrations. It's a good read for children up until the age of about six to eight depending on how developed they are scholastically.

In this very prettily illustrated little story, the little Country Bunny girl is laughed at and told she will never be one of the five easter bunnies. When she has twenty-one children, she thinks they are right, but she proves herself wise by training them, kind by keeping a kind house, and swift. When she has to deliver the most difficult egg, she proves herself brave as well, and is given little gold shoes to help with the task. ( )