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4.22 AVERAGE
4.22 AVERAGE
March 2018 - I vividly remember listening to this as a child, but I expected it to feel more dated than it did. I like the Country Bunny's parenting style - delegating responsibility and teaching her children to be self-sufficient, and still pursuing her own dreams along the way - a much better message than a lot of newer books! It's a long read aloud and worked well for Ben this year.
May 2019 - Ben didn't seem to remember this one, but he was really into it.
May 2019 - Ben didn't seem to remember this one, but he was really into it.
The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes is my all-time favorite Easter book. It was read to me when I was a little girl; decades later, I read it to my own daughter. Though it was first published in 1939, it has held up remarkably well and is now a classic. The simplicity of Heyward’s words are perfectly matched by Marjorie Flack’s delightful illustrations.
I love this book in part because the little girl bunny is able to become an Easter Bunny – even after she grows up and becomes a mother. Not only is she not limited by her sex or her familial role, her parenting skills are the reason she is chosen. But mostly I love it because it is charming and heartwarming and told simply, the way a parent tells a story to a child. In fact, that’s how the book began: as a story told to Heyward’s daughter Jenifer.
It’s a story well worth sharing with your child or grandchild.
Full review published at The Bookwyrm's Hoard.
I love this book in part because the little girl bunny is able to become an Easter Bunny – even after she grows up and becomes a mother. Not only is she not limited by her sex or her familial role, her parenting skills are the reason she is chosen. But mostly I love it because it is charming and heartwarming and told simply, the way a parent tells a story to a child. In fact, that’s how the book began: as a story told to Heyward’s daughter Jenifer.
It’s a story well worth sharing with your child or grandchild.
Full review published at The Bookwyrm's Hoard.
This was definitely a childhood favorite of mine around Easter time.
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This book singlehandedly made me a feminist when I was 4
This book singlehandedly made me a feminist when I was 4
I registered a book at BookCrossing.com!
http://www.BookCrossing.com/journal/11991285
I enjoyed the tale of how the Easter Bunny gets the job done (or should I say Easter Bunnies) -- just a fun tale.
http://www.BookCrossing.com/journal/11991285
I enjoyed the tale of how the Easter Bunny gets the job done (or should I say Easter Bunnies) -- just a fun tale.
I know this is considered to be a classic, but it just felt old-fashioned to me and I can't imagine any child sitting still through such a long book.
This book was written in 1939. It's a classic in every sense of the way. On the surface, it tells the story of a little brown country bunny who would like to become one of five world-wide Easter Bunnies.
It's important that the bunny is brown because there is a scene where the rich white bunnies make fun of her for never possibly being good enough to become an Easter Bunny. So yes, this book is about overcoming racism. Written with a can-do spirit by a white man in 1939!
However, the book has another fantastic message that I, personally, loved just as much: the bunny is the mother of 21 little bunnies so she's very busy cooking and cleaning and teaching her children and generally doing all the things every mother usually does.
Have you ever tried explaining a long absence from "work" by having raised children? Leading a household is indeed work but not really acknowledged anywhere! Even feminists with their "you're a women, you can do and be whatever you want" slogans often look at you disdainfully when you tell them you are or want to be a housewife and mother because "that is not a real job".
The underlying message is that of love and devotion and being diligent and therefore worthy of anything. Being a mother and wife doesn't mean you can't follow your dreams. Being from the country instead of the big city, not being rich, not being white, being a female (yes, all the Easter Bunnies are male) ... non of that is a disadvantage if your heart is in the right place.
A wonderful Easter tale (no religious subtext, yay) that teaches young and old a lot about what society should and could be like. We should all be more like Grandpa Bunny.
This is one of the books that absolutely has to be in my collection. I can't believe when it was written and how well the author addressed the problems and presented the solutions.
It's important that the bunny is brown because there is a scene where the rich white bunnies make fun of her for never possibly being good enough to become an Easter Bunny. So yes, this book is about overcoming racism. Written with a can-do spirit by a white man in 1939!
However, the book has another fantastic message that I, personally, loved just as much: the bunny is the mother of 21 little bunnies so she's very busy cooking and cleaning and teaching her children and generally doing all the things every mother usually does.
Have you ever tried explaining a long absence from "work" by having raised children? Leading a household is indeed work but not really acknowledged anywhere! Even feminists with their "you're a women, you can do and be whatever you want" slogans often look at you disdainfully when you tell them you are or want to be a housewife and mother because "that is not a real job".
The underlying message is that of love and devotion and being diligent and therefore worthy of anything. Being a mother and wife doesn't mean you can't follow your dreams. Being from the country instead of the big city, not being rich, not being white, being a female (yes, all the Easter Bunnies are male) ... non of that is a disadvantage if your heart is in the right place.
A wonderful Easter tale (no religious subtext, yay) that teaches young and old a lot about what society should and could be like. We should all be more like Grandpa Bunny.
This is one of the books that absolutely has to be in my collection. I can't believe when it was written and how well the author addressed the problems and presented the solutions.
Don’t judge a book by its cover. This book was written in the 1930s but it’s still so relevant. Most Easter Bunny books I remember are focused on candy and presents. This one is all about a single mother bunny who raises her 21 children to be kind, wise, and swift and still attains her goal to become one of the Easter bunnies despite all the naysayers. Would be a perfect read aloud for first grade or maybe second grade, but personally I would love to read it every Easter.
Self confidence, perseverance, a woman achiever who manages to mix work and kids and has great love for kids, and gorgeous pictures of beautiful Easter eggs. What more could you want from a book?!
This is absolutely 100% the only Easter book that counts. It’s completely wonderful in every way and I adore it.