Wasn’t it just February, with all the complaining about the endlessness of winter? March has gone insanely fast, and here we are, nearly at the end, with Easter just days away. Sweet! In celebration, my new favourite Easter title.
The Easter Bunny’s Assistant
by Jam Thomas
HarperCollins
ISBN: 978 0 061 69286 4
A Bunny is going to dye eggs, and Skunk is going to help as they teach us, too. Skunk is so excited! And when Skunk gets excited… yuk. Can he contain his enthusiasm enough to allow Bunny to make the eggs? As hard as he tries, Bunny ends up putting him outside so he can finish in peace, and lets him back in at the end.
It’s effectively one big fart joke, but it’s perfectly pitched for kids, and silly enough for a good range of ages, something Jan Thomas is a wizard at doing. The illustrations are big and bold enough even for the small, and it is easy to make interactive for using with a group, and the funny bone, she is struck. This is certainly for the secular approach to Easter, but for anyone who works with kids, it’s what you’re looking for. That, and it contains instructions for egg dying at the end, so kids can follow the same steps as the Bunny and make their own Easter eggs. Fun!
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