She applies, only to be scorned by the elite Easter bunnies, "big white bunnies who lived in fine houses" who tell her to "go back to the country and eat a carrot." The book is the story of Cottontail, a small, brown mother bunny who aspires to be an Easter bunny, which, in this telling, is a highly competitive position for which only five bunnies are selected each year. Before turning it into a book, Heyward used to tell the story to his own children. Īccording to James Hutchisson, professor of English at The Citadel, the book is probably based on a story made up by Heyward's mother, Jane Screven DuBose, and told to Heyward when he was a child. The book, which has never been out of print, has come to be regarded as a feminist and anti-racist statement. The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes is a 1939 children's picture book written by DuBose Heyward and illustrated by Marjorie Flack.
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