Easter is one of my favorite holidays. Mostly because of all the wonderful traditions and memories we have made over the years. We always get together with one of my Aunts and her family which is a blast. They are awesome!

One of our traditions has been to have the Easter Bunny bring a new Easter Book to the kids in their baskets. Well, its a nice idea but we have so many Easter books and the rest of the holidays (minus Christmas) are lacking. Ooops.

At least the intentions were good and now I have this incredible list to share with you.

Somebunny Loves You

When I first picked up this book I thought for sure it was going to be goofy pictures that my kids would giggle at for days. I was so surprised when I opened it up. This book is filled with adorable pictures and poems. Well, fun little poems and sing song poems. Many board books have bright colors and this is so exception. The colors are beautiful. Atypical to board books this one has incredible vocabulary and descriptions on every page. It is fun to read as an adult and my kids were captivated from the baby to my four year old.

“Wherever you go,

whatever you do,

always remember:

somebunny loves you!”

Easter Is Here

Little People puts out some excellent books. On our shelves we have quite a collection of their board books. Easter is here is still a board book but it is geared towards older toddlers. It has a ton of flaps in it and awesome lists for searching and find. Some pages have you hunting for colors, objects, bunnies, baskets and even an egg hunt! The colors are bright and vivid and the flaps are quite durable even when reading with energetic tots.

Happy Easter Corduroy

Join Corduroy and his friends as they die eggs, hunt for hidden Easter eggs and have a picnic. This is a wonderful choice for a first Easter Book.

Egg

My babies have always loved this book. It is bright, colorful and filed with lots of different animals. All the animals take their turn finding eggs until the very end when the chicks hatch into baby chicks.

The Littlest Bunny in Canada: An Easter Adventure

Flop is such a cute bunny owned by two siblings. To their surprise they brought the Easter Bunny home with them. Flop sure is a busy bunny. Once the kids are in bed he gets to work traveling coast to coast hiding eggs and baskets. I first read this book to myself and enjoyed it. It was a nice read. At the end there is an egg hunt that goes though the book. What a great idea! When I read the book with my kids I didn’t even have to mention the egg hunt before they were already counting eggs as they found them. The eggs have numbers on them too which is an excellent way to sneak in number recognition.

The Great Easter Race

Sesame Street is always a classic. In this tale there was a mighty race between characters. Most of them got distracted along the way but once the race was finished they found the best prize. It was a cute story and like a sesame street books the drawings are adorable.

How to Catch the Easter Bunny

When I first read this book I immediately noticed that it contained many great rhymes and  intellectual words. We are just getting into learning how to read so the rhymes are extra appealing at the moment. E. B., as he is known, is quick and kinda spunky. He might just be my favorite Easter bunny character. The Easter bunny finds himself in a couple of predicaments in which he must escape. He uses his lucky rabbit feet and always escapes. This books would be especially wonderful for a writing prompt, discussion or even the beginning  of many experiments. Ask your child how they would catch the Easter Bunny and maybe try some of them out. You might be surprised by what they come up with.

The Great Easter Egg Hunt

What a fun book! The Great Easter Egg Hunt is actually a puzzle book filled with mazes, word searches and riddles. The majority of puzzles are probably best for age 5+. My little’s (4 and under) didn’t grasp most of the puzzles but enjoyed the story line and chasing the bunny through the book. Quite a few pages are too busy for my tastes but it was an enjoyable read.

The Night Before Easter

I love when authors can take a classic story like “The Night Before Christmas,” and adapt it to tell another tale. Often it goes terribly wrong but not this time. It adorable and so much fun. This is a book that you can read a couple times a day and still enjoy it. Be careful though, if your not you might have visions jellybeans dancing in your head.

Peter Cottontail

When I was a little girl I received a Rabbit stuffed animal. I don’t remember receiving it but I cherished it. That bunny looked exactly like Peter Cottontail. To this day when I think of the Easter Bunny, I imagine a bunny with a vest and those teeny tiny glasses. This book has similarities to “The Grinch.” There is a wolf that does not want he bunnies to celebrate Easter. He schemes up a plan to get rid of the Easter eggs, preventing Easter fun. Of course this didn’t foil Easter. They all had a wonderful Easter party then ended up on a hunt for the eggs that Willy Wolf hid. This book will always be in our collection. Great illustrations, awesome message and it leads right into a fun egg hunt.

The Best Easter Eggs Ever

The Easter Bunny works so hard every year and in this story he has three adorable helpers assist him in decorating the eggs. The little bunnies all found inspiration in different places. The only thing that I didn’t like was that each bunny received a medal for their work. I don’t have a problem with the Easter Bunny loving all of the designs, just the medals. I know I am just being nit picky but I don’t love that they included that line. Other than that I really enjoyed the book. My kids also enjoyed the book and have been searching for their own inspirations for when we decorate eggs this weekend.

I hope you enjoyed reading about some of our Easter Books. Maybe you found one or two more to add to your collection this year.

Happy Easter from my home to yours!