The Funny Bunny Factory

The Funny Bunny Factory

Adam Green

illustrated by Leonard Weisgard

A gorgeous, oversized gem illustrated by Leonard Weisgard.  Each page is such a rich colorful work of art!  Written in a repeating, list making style great for reading out loud.  And it is a pretty silly story!

The Easter Bunny That Overslept

The Easter Bunny That Overslept

Priscilla and Otto Friedrich

illustrated by Adrienne Adams 1957

There's something so charming about the soft colored detailed pictures in this book. The story is about a time when the Easter bunny overslept and missed delivering his eggs on Easter day.  He tries to deliver them at other times but no one wants "Fourth of July eggs" or eggs at Halloween.  He eventually finds himself helping Santa Clause and getting a very "timely" Christmas gift that helps him make the next year's Easter a big success.

 

The Easter Egg Artists

The Easter Egg Artists

Adrienne Adams (1976)

Here's a book from the 70's about a family of artist bunnies.  They move south for the winter, painting bridges and buildings and airplanes along the way.  They return home just in time to paint all the Easter eggs.  The illustrations have a neat folk art feel.

 

 

A Tale for Easter

An Easter book more in the fanciful magical realm than the religious one.  Tasha Tudor's pictures are particularly lovely as she describes a little girl's dreaming on the night before Easter morning.

A Tale for Easter

Tasha Tudor 2001

Everthing About Easter Rabbits

Charlotte and I laughed out loud at this book.  We first read it months ago, but I think we're due for another read.

Everything About Easter Rabbits

Wiltrude Roser 1972

translated by Eva L. Mayer

It's all about the hard working Easter Bunnies and how they must work in school (they even get homework!) and gather the eggs carefully from the hens.  The pictures are pretty funny (I loved the sly reference to "Slovenly Peter") and I like the combination of text with handwriting.

The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes

I picked Charlotte up from school yesterday where she had her Easter party and came home wearing handmade paper bunny ears.  I love when the pre-schoolers are sent home wearing things on their heads- it's so cute!  We picked up our free Rita's water-ice (even though it was freezing out) and came home for a nap.  Charlotte put down her bunny ears and picked up this book and nap time was even better.

The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes

Du Bose Heyward

pictures by Marjorie Flack 1939

What I really love about this story is that the heroine is a little country bunny momma.  When she was a little girl she wanted to be one of the handpicked Easter Bunnies, who are quick and clever.  She grows up and before she knows it has 21 baby bunnies! 

And by and by she had a husband and then one day, much to her surprise there were twenty-one Cottontail babies to take care of.

She gives them all jobs to do and teaches them to take care of the house.  Then old Grandfather bunny sees how clever and brave and fast she is and gives her the most important Easter Bunny job of all.