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Summary: The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes
Review: This book is enchanting both in its story and its illustrations. I first read it as a child, then read it to my children and am now reading it to my grandchildren. We all love it. The story is timeless with it lessons of love, kindness, perseverance and wisdom. The illustrations are beautifully done and dateless providing another reason for it being a book who's popularity continues from generation to generation. It is the ultimate in singleparent success stories (without being too didactic)! Definitely a book to read and keep for yourself in addition to gifting it to others.
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Summary: Country Bunny Touches Hearts
Review: This book is hands down the best Easter book we've ever read. It has touched our hearts for 3 generations of my rather large family. Everyone agrees that Country Bunny is pure love poured out on pages. It was the very first book we purchased for our first child - before she was even born. My sister is expecting now, so I'm back to purchase yet another copy. Every family should own this book, for whose heart doesn't benefit from beauty?
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Summary: Wow! Hidden messages and hidden Easter eggs
Review: This book is loaded with sexist, stereotyped script. The 'country' bunny is shunned by the 'big white' bunnies and the 'Jack Rabbits', all who expect her to get married and have babies. Which, of course, she does. After all, she's only a country bunny so she couldn't be smart. However, she proves every 'bunny' wrong as she competes against the 'big whites' and 'Jacks' for the coveted position of Easter Bunny. Not only is she selected, it is her experience as a mother that helped her gain the skills to win the position. And her perserverence to do the job was rewarded with the little gold shoes which help her complete her task of delivering the Easter eggs to an otherwise unreachable location. Although I feel the symbolism very strong, I did not find my nine year old picking up on any of it (he thought it was a delightful Easter story), though my fourteen year old did. There are a variety of ways you can choose to interpret the subtle and blatent 'feminist' messages. Read it and decide for yourself.
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Summary: A book that is happy and great for young readers
Review: This book was given by my mother when I was 5 years old.It made me so happy the moment I read it.It was a good book because the book tells you that whatever you want to do,you can do it.I still have this book.It makes me feel good about myself.
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Summary: Enchanting
Review: This has been my favorite book for 50 years. When I got it out 27 years ago to read to my son, I realized that it was one of the first books to teach me that nothing was impossible, even for girls. The illustrations never cease to touch my heart. Everyone I give this to is absolutely enchanted.
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Summary: Great Story
Review: This is a well told story about a mother bunny and her many children. I pull this book out each spring; my children really enjoy the story. Even my youngest who is restless could sit through this story (41 pages) when she was two-years-old. The main focus of the story is the mother bunny's desire to become the Easter Bunny. The story also contains delightful descriptions of the mother bunny's childhood, the selection of the Easter bunnies and the difficult tasks that Easter Bunnies face each year. What I enjoy most about this story is the mother bunny's relationship with her children.
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Summary: powerful and true
Review: This is the most powerful book I have ever read.The boastful jackrabbits, the aristocratic snobby rabbits, and the male rabbits who laugh when little country bunny tells them that she will grow up to become to be one of the revered Easter Bunnies - are all proven wrong. Little country bunny grows up, has children, and through the pure goodness of her heart and common sense catches the eye of the Wise Old Grandfather bunny. Ta-da! He asks her to be an Easter Bunny! After trials and tribulations, her determination, caring, and perseverence carry her through, and she is exalted beyond her dreams by Grandfather Bunny. She is wise, and nice, and very humble. I love this story because is beautifully written and teaches that those with good and kind hearts, who work hard and persevere, will triumph. Being rich, big, high-born, young, male, does not matter where it really counts - all that matters is what is in your heart. I first read this as a child growing up in rural Canada - where being Asian, female, poor, and ambitious were all drawbacks - and now I am a successful lawyer in Toronto. This book made a difference for me.
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Summary: A Must Have For Every Little Girl's Library.
Review: This was my absolute favorite storybook when I was a little girl. It inspired me and taught me that being female didn't limit me to only being a mother; I could have special talents and interests and be good at other things too. The beautiful illustrations remain in my memory even today. Whenever a friend has a baby girl, this is the one gift I always send.
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Summary: My favorite book when I was little
Review: This was my favorite book when I was little & I still love it today. It's a story about Easter & the Five (yes, five) Easter Bunnies who deliver baskets of eggs to children all around the world. These rich, fast & beautiful jackrabbits & hares laugh at the little country girl rabbit for thinking that she could ever become an Easter Bunny. It's about how girls, even little country rabbit girls, don't just have to grow up & get married & have babies, they can be special in other ways just like anybody else. And if they do grow up & marry & have babies, that doesn't mean that's all they can do; they can achieve more than that as well. The other rabbits who think that looks & speed is what it's all about don't realize that you also need to be kind, considerate, caring & wise as well. I don't completely believe that these attitudes are completely dated; you can still find them in lesser degrees anywhere. I think it's a great book with a modern outlook for girls & boys everywhere. I read this book recently to my nephews. I don't think my nephews really believed this story about there being Five Easter Bunnies but I do!
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Summary: My favorite book when I was little
Review: This was my favorite book when I was little & I still love it today. It's a story about Easter & the Five (yes, five) Easter Bunnies who deliver baskets of eggs to children all around the world. These rich, fast & beautiful jackrabbits & hares laugh at the little country girl rabbit for thinking that she could ever become an Easter Bunny. It's about how girls, even little country rabbit girls, don't just have to grow up & get married & have babies, they can be special in other ways just like anybody else. And if they do grow up & marry & have babies, that doesn't mean that's all they can do; they can achieve more than that as well. The other rabbits who think that looks & speed is what it's all about don't realize that you also need to be kind, considerate, caring & wise as well. I don't completely believe that these attitudes are completely dated; you can still find them in lesser degrees anywhere. I think it's a great book with a modern outlook for girls & boys everywhere. I read this book recently to my nephews. I don't think my nephews really believed this story about there being Five Easter Bunnies but I do!
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