![]() ![]() She fulfills her dream of being an Easter bunny, her children are FINE and better FOR having a mother who is happy and fulfilled. There are trials and set backs, like a twisted ankle, but the tenacious mother overcomes them all. Everyone is finally able to take care of the home while she, once again, pursues her dream. ![]() But as soon as the children get big enough, she gives them all special chores to do. ![]() But then… one day “much to her surprise, there were twenty-one cottontail babies to take care of.”Īnd the other, older, boy bunnies laughed at her and said, “What did we tell you? Only a country bunny would go and have all those babies! Now go take care of them and leave the the Easter Eggs to great big men bunnies like us!”įor a while, the mother puts her dream away. I didn’t really know it then, but this engaging tale of a single mother bunny who works her way from the lowly ranks of a worker to becoming the Easter Bunny, champions feminist ideals.įrom the time the protagonist bunny is a little girl, she insist that she will become an Easter bunny, despite the people who doubted her and despite the fact that Easter bunnies were, and had always been, boys.įor years, the young girl bunny practiced. ![]() The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoeswas one of my very favorite books when I was a little girl in the early-mid (cough) 70s. ![]()
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