The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes coloring pages

Country Bunny   White Bunnies with their Fine Houses

This is a new drawing based on the amazing children's book, written in 1939, called The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes.  The book was written by De Bose Heyward based on a story he used to tell his daughter, Jenifer.  The illustrations are amazing.  They were done by Marjorie Flack.  This is a book that was ahead of its time. It celebrates the disenfranchised.  It teaches about working hard, being the best you can be.  It even teaches about racism and celebrates a stay at home mom.  And it says females can do great things.  

Picture of the book.  In fact this is a photo of my missing antique copy.

In the book The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes a country bunny, who is a little girl bunny aspires to be one of the five Easter Bunnies.  She gets made fun of by the jackrabbits and the white bunnies who told her to. "Go home and eat a carrot."  

She marries and has 21 children. . . she IS a rabbit, after all.  She teaches her children in love and she also teaches them to be responsible.  Then the Grandfather Bunny who lives in the Palace of Easter Eggs calls for tryouts for the next Easter Bunny.  I won't tell you more.  But the book is available for only $1.99 on Amazon Kindle.  I know because I could not find my 80-year hardback copy, so I just bought the Kindle version.  I would have gone to Barnes and Noble to get a hard copy, but I am in quarantine, like many of you.  

I liked this book so much that I drew these pictures below in previous years, near Easter.  Tonight I just drew the "White Bunnies with their Fine Houses."  I also wrote a song parody based on this great and inspiring story.  It was inspiring to me, even though when I read it as a little boy I was definitely not a girl.   It was inspiring to me because I had a tracheotomy tube and although I did not know the word, I felt disenfranchised.  I was bullied and could not play sports like the other kids.  This book was inspiring.  

For 11 years I taught Elementary School.  That is when I wrote this song parody.  (I taught Science in Junior High for 16 years.)   And I had some of those kids sing this song too.  First I will post the drawings from previous years, and then I will post the song.  These drawings can be found, in printable form, by clicking on the button up top labeled:  "Holidays."

Country Bunny little girl bunny

Country Bunny kids doing dishes

Country Bunny husband and father

(The husband and father was mentioned in the book 

but not seen in the illustrations, so I did this drawing.

Grandfather Bunny in the Palace of Easter Eggs

Country Bunny delivering Easter Eggs

Country Bunny Song

Sung to the tune of On Top of Old Smokey

By Robin Lyman

A small Country Bunny

Said I'm going to be

A great Easter Bunny

Just you wait and see

She had twenty-one babies

She was wise swift and kind

She was the best bunny

Grandfather could find

He made her a bunny

that brought all the eggs

and gave her some gold shoes

when she hurt her leg

Other Easter Bunnies

Really did not mind

Cause to be Easter Bunnies

You're wise swift and kind

So if you're some bunny

who has a big dream

You may turn out to be

Much more than you seem