Bust out the Bunnies, Chicks, and Ducklings, It's Easter!
Categories: Children's Books
Bust out the bunnies, chicks, and ducklings for their annual celebration of the return of spring! We have a wonderful collection of hippity-hoppity stories that remind us that Easter is on its way!
It wouldn’t be Easter without a few Max and Ruby books. In Max’s Chocolate Chicken, Max and his sister Ruby go on an egg hunt and vie with each other for the prize--a chocolate chicken.
Also by Wells, Max Counts his Chickens. When the Easter Bunny hides the contents of their Easter baskets, Ruby and Max begin a fun-filled search to locate all the missing marshmallow chicks,
When one of Mrs. Pennywort's hens begins laying unusual eggs, in Mary Jane Auch’s The Easter Egg Farm, the elated woman decides to turn a profit on the phenomenon, but there could be trouble when the gifted hen tries to lay enough eggs for an Easter egg hunt.
In Owen’s Marshmallow Chick by Kevin Henkes, Owen is excited by all the treats in his Easter basket and eats them all, one by one, with great delight, yet when he reaches the little yellow marshmallow chick, Owen's munching is put on hold since he has found something simply too cute and special to eat.
Jeanne Modesitt’s Little Bunny’s Easter Surprise stars a Little Bunny who decides to give her family beautiful Easter baskets, she hides them as part of the treat, but when she forgets where she has hidden them, Baby Brother steps in to help her locate her missing gifts.
Who is the Easter Bunny? After years of helping the old couple make, shape, and decorate Easter eggs, a young bunny decides to spread the joy with others and so begins to deliver his tasty treats to all his neighbors and friends in the community--becoming the famous Easter Bunny in the process in Katherine Tegen’s The Story of the Easter Bunny.
Charlotte Zolotow's classic, The Bunny Who Found Easter has charmed generations of small children with its story of a bunny who looks for "other rabbits like himself for company." The wise owl suggests that there are always rabbits at Easter, but can't tell the bunny where Easter is
Janet Stoeke’s Minerva Louise and the Colorful Eggs is an absolute favorite. Enjoying a pleasant springtime day on the farm, a curious bird, Minerva Louise, discovers an assortment of colorful eggs laying about in the strangest places and so begins a quest to find out who could be laying such beautiful creations in such odd locations!
For kids who are weary of bunny and eggs stories, the perfect anti-cute-critter antidote is The Dumb Bunnies Easter. Sue Denim's and Dav Pilkey's evergreen spoof of all things festive begins as the Dumb Bunny family chooses an Easter tree, spray-paints fried eggs, stuffs a turkey (through the basketball goal), and waits for Santa's minivan pulled by eight cranky pilgrims.
Also for non-traditionalists, Here Comes T. Rex Cottontail by Lois Grambling. When Peter Cottontail gets sick on Easter morning and needs someone to take over his important task, T. Rex jumps into action and heads out on the road, but when the goods are damaged because of his large steps and strong moves, a group of his friends lends a hand to help show him the right way to get the job done!
