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• The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes
  Written by by Dubose Heyward and Marjorie Flack
• Posted by BOOK MAMA
• Tagged in: For Kids

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This is another classic—one of my favorites growing up, and now definitely my daughters’ favorite Easter book in the stack.  It’s pretty long so it’s a real testament to the narrative strength that kids interests’ are absolutely held until the very end.

The Country Bunny tells the story of a little girl bunny who longs to someday be one of the five Easter bunnies who deliver eggs on Easter to children all over the world.  She grows up and gets a little off track (don’t we all?) and winds up having 21 babies.  Oopsie!  But she’s a fabulous mother and has them all trained up nicely to behave and do chores and so forth.  This is my kids’ favorite part:  The author describes what each bunny does around the house.  These two make the beds…these two wash the clothes…these two sweep the floor and so forth.  The 21^st bunny pulls out his...

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