Guest post by Grace Brooks When I set out to write my book for young readers called Queen Abigail the Wise, I knew that it was going to begin on the first Sunday of Lent and end on Pascha night. So naturally, it would include the fifth Sunday in Lent — the...
I hadn’t planned on reviewing another Easter-bunny-delivers-eggs book. I thought that, once I’d reviewed The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes, there was no need to review another book of that genre. But then a friend asked me to review The Easter Egg by Jan...
If you go to a bookstore this time of year, you’ll find dozens and dozens of books about bunnies delivering eggs. I’ve never much cared for those books. They remind me of the sort of Easter candies that say “chocolatey” on the label instead of “chocolate.” They’re...
“The color of Holy Week is purple.” That was the unexpected beginning of Sawdust Carpets by Amelia Lau Carling. It was unexpected because nothing on the book’s cover or title page suggested an Easter story to me. But there it was. On the first page, in the very first...
Carla Aragón’s Dance of the Eggshells is a sweet story about Easter traditions being handed down in a family, from grandparents to their grandchildren. In the story, Grandma Socorro teaches Libby and her brother J.D. how to prepare and decorate eggs for the Easter...