The Bunny Who Found Easter by Charlotte Zolotow

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Purchases made through these links may earn a commission for this blog. The book can also be found in the children’s room at the Craig branch of the Moffat County Library.Note: this list contains Amazon and Bookshop affiliate links. “The Bunny Who Found Easter,” published by Houghton Mifflin Company (1998), costs $15 in hardcover, though you may be able to find it in softcover. There’s a surprise for Bunny, and he learns something about Easter.Ĭharlotte Zolotow is an award-winning author. When they wake, everything smells different. Lots of other animals are out, including a deer family, squirrels and sparrows, but there aren’t any rabbits, not even tracks.īunny and Mouse curl up in the trunk of a hollow tree and go to sleep. Mouse is quite a way behind now, because it’s hard to get across the snow. The mouse doesn’t look so happy, either.īunny has been looking so hard that soon, it’s fall, then winter. When the sun comes out, everything looks beautiful, but there are no rabbits. They have to take cover when a sudden thunderstorm appears. Bunny hurries on, the mouse close behind. Again, there are no rabbits, so it must not be Easter. Next, they come to a field of daisies with a bumblebee flying overhead. Trout, but no rabbits, so Bunny decides it must not be Easter. It is a hot, summer day, and Bunny’s first stop is a pool of water where several large trout are swimming. The bunny may not notice the mouse, dressed in a yellow, shirt on the other side of the tree trunk. The rabbit is lonely he longs to have other rabbits for company. He has been asleep below a big elm tree (and, indeed, the leaves look exactly as those of the elm trees in our yard). The leading character of the tale is a white bunny dressed in a lilac-colored jacket. Looking closely, readers can find a grasshopper, snail, bumblebee and other animals hidden in the vegetation.

Reading the book to children would be great fun, because lots of time could be spent studying the illustrations to identify plant and animal life. This week’s book, for Easter, is an older book, but that doesn’t make it any less charming, and the illustrations, done on paper with ink, watercolor and colored pencil, are gorgeous and full of detail. The illustrations for the book were done by Helen Craig. This week’s picture book for children is a new edition of the classic tale, published in 1998. “The Bunny Who Found Easter,” by Charlotte Zolotow, was first published in 1959, and the copyright was renewed in 1987.

The Bunny Who Found Easter by Charlotte Zolotow