Easter Booklist
Title: Big Bunny
By: Betseygail Rand and Colleen Rand, Illustrated by C.S.W. Rand
Published: 2011
Big Bunny cannot paint eggs without breaking them, so very sad, she runs away until the other little Easter bunnies think of an important task that is just right for Big Bunny to do.
Age Range: 3-7
Call Number: JPicture Rand.B (Children's Holiday section)
Title: The Bird's Gift: A Ukrainian Easter Story
By: Retold by Eric A. Kimmel, Illustrated by Katya Krenina
Published: 1999
Guided by the town priest, villagers take in a flock of golden birds nearly frozen by an early snow and are rewarded with beautifully decorated eggs the next spring.
Age Range: 4-8
Call Number: x398.6 Ukraine Kimme.E (Children's Holiday section)
Title: Bunny's Big Surprise
By: Phyllis Limbacher Tildes
Published: 2020
Bunny finds an egg at the water's edge, but none of the birds he asks know who it belongs to, so he puts it in his Easter basket--and when it hatches he gets a big surprise.
Age Range: 2-5
Call Number: JPicture Tilde.P (Children's Holiday section)
Title: Bunny's Easter Egg
By: Anne Mortimer
Published: 2010
Bunny is exhausted after spending the night hiding eggs for the Easter egg hunt, but she cannot find a comfortable, quiet place to sleep.
Age Range: 4-7
Call Number: JPicture Morti.A (Children's Holiday section)
Title: The Colt and the King
By: Marni McGee, Illustrated John Winch
Published: 2002
A donkey tells how he reluctantly played a part in Jesus' entry into Jerusalem on the first Palm Sunday.
Age Range: 4-8
Call Number: JPicture Mcgee.M (Children's Holiday section)
Title: Danny and the Easter Egg
By: Edith Kunhardt
Published: 1989
Danny colors Easter eggs with his friends, then hunts for them after they are hidden by the Easter Bunny, and gives a special one to his grandmother.
Age Range: 3 and up
Call Number: JPicture Kunha.E (Children's Holiday section)
Title: The Easter Bunny's Assistant
By: Jan Thomas
Published: 2012
The Easter Bunny and his special assistant demonstrate how to make Easter eggs. Includes egg-dyeing instructions.
Age Range: 4-8
Call Number: JPicture Thoma.J (Children's Holiday section)
Title: The Easter Egg
By: Jan Brett
Published: 2010
Hoppi the bunny wants to win the egg-decorating contest so the Easter Bunny will choose him to help distribute Easter eggs, but instead, while everyone else is working on their decorations, he finds himself guarding an egg that has fallen from a robin's nest.
Age Range: 3-5
Call Number: JPicture Brett.J (Children's Holiday section)
Title: Easter Eggs for Anya: A Unkrainian Celebration of New Life in Christ
By: Virginia Kroll, Illustrated by Sally Wern Comport
Published: 2007
Anya gets a big surprise when she finds some abandoned goose eggs that she plans to use for the traditional Ukrainian pysanky for Easter. Includes instructions for making Ukrainian Easter eggs and information about the tradition.
Age Range: 4-7
Call Number: JPicture Kroll.V (Children's Holiday section)
Title: Easter Parade
By: Eloise Greenfield, Illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist
Published: 1998
Although the young cousins live many miles apart, Leanna in Chicago and Elizabeth in Washington, D.C., both prepare for an Easter parade against the backdrop of the Second World War.
Age Range: 6-9
Call Number: JPicture Green.E (Children's Holiday section)
Title: The Easter Story
By: Brian Wildsmith
Published: 1994
The story of the last days of Jesus' life, the crucifixion, and the resurrection, as seen through the eyes of a small donkey.
Age Range: 5 and up
Call Number: x232 Wilds.B (Children's Holiday section)
Title: Eggs Are Everywhere
By: Wednesday Kirwan, Illustrated Jan Spivey Gilchrist
Published: 2020
Turn the interactive wheel to choose a brightly colored egg, and then find where it is hiding amid a variety of scenes in this lift-the-flap book.
Age Range: 2-4
Call Number: JBoardbk (Children's Holiday section)
Title: The Golden Egg Book
By: Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Leonard Weisgard
Published: 1975
A Bunny finds an egg with something moving inside of it, and when a baby duck pecks his way out of the egg, the two animals become friends.
Age Range: 2-5
Call Number: JPicture Brown.M (Children's Holiday section)
Title: The Great Big Especially Beautiful Easter Egg
By: James Stevenson
Published: 1983
At Easter, a man tells his two grandchildren how he searched many years ago for a special Easter egg to give to his friend Charlotte.
Age Range: 7-9
Call Number: JPicture Steve.J (Children's Holiday section)
Title: He Is Risen: Rocks Tell the Story of Easter
By: Patti Rokus
Published: 2019
Rokus uses rock art to retell the Easter story, including the Last Supper, the Crucifixion, and the Resurrection.
Age Range: 4-8
Call Number: x232.96 Rokus.P (Children's Holiday section)
Title: Here Comes the Easter Cat
By: Deborah Underwood, Illustrated by Claudia Rueda
Published: 2014
When Cat tries to replace the Easter Bunny, he soon learns that the job is much harder than he expected--and does not allow time for naps.
Age Range: 3-5
Call Number: JPicture Under.D (Children's Holiday section)
Title: Hop
By: Jorey Hurley
Published: 2016
A day in the life of a rabbit family, from sleeping to grazing to hiding from danger.
Age Range: 3-7
Call Number: JPicture Hurle.J
Title: Hop
By: Hill, Tim (Director)
Published: 2012
Blending state-of-the-art animation with live action, Hop tells the comic tale of Fred, an out-of-work slacker who accidentally injures the Easter Bunny and must take him in as he recovers. As Fred struggles with the world's worst houseguest, both will learn what it takes to finally grow up.
Rating: PG
Call Number: JUV DVD Family Hop
Title: Last One in Is the Rotten Egg
By: Diane deGroat
Published: 2007
When Gilbert and Lola's cousin Wally comes to visit for Easter, he learns a lesson about being greedy during the annual Easter egg hunt.
Age Range: 4-8
Call Number: JPicture Degro.D (Children's Holiday section)
Title: Max Counts His Chickens
By: Rosemary Wells
Published: 2007
On Easter morning, when Ruby finds all ten of the marshmallow chicks hidden by the Easter Bunny, Grandma must quickly think of a way to make things fair for Max.
Age Range: 3-5
Call Number: JPicture Wells.R (Children's Holiday section)
Title: Minerva Louise and the Colorful Eggs
By: Janet Morgan Stoeke
Published: 2006
When she notices several unattended, colorful eggs in the barnyard, the hen named Minerva Louise worries that they are abandoned and cold.
Age Range: 3-5
Call Number: JPicture Stoek.J (Children's Holiday section)
Title: La Pascua
By: Adeline J. Zimmerman
Published: 2022
In this title, emergent readers are introduced to the celebrations, traditions, and symbols behind the Easter holiday, in Spanish. Carefully crafted text with high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references support emergent readers, creating a fun first nonfiction reading experience.
rango de edad: 3-6
número de llamada: Spanish x394.2667 Zimme.A (at Robert Crown)
Title: Petook: An Easter Story
By: Caryll Houselander, Illustrated by Tomie dePaola
Published: 1988
Petook the rooster witnesses the crucifixion of Christ and rejoices in the birth of new chicks three days later on Easter morning.
Age Range: 5-8
Call Number: JPicture House.C (Children's Holiday section)
Title: Rechenka's Eggs
By: Patricia Polacco
Published: 1991
An injured goose rescued by Babushka, having broken the painted eggs intended for the Easter Festival in Moscow, lays thirteen marvelously colored eggs to replace them, and leaves behind one final miracle in egg form before returning to her own kind.
Age Range: 4-8
Call Number: JUV KIT JPicture Polac.P (Children's Holiday section)
Title: The Story of Easter
By: Aileen Fisher, Illustrated by Stefano Vitale
Published: 1997
Presents the background and significance of the Christian celebration of Easter.
Age Range: 2-5
Call Number: x232 Fishe.A (Children's Holiday section)