In a way, Tekla’s Easter is a lot like Catherine’s Pascha. Both books tell the story of one little girl who is celebrating the feast of the Resurrection of Christ with her family and her church. Of course, Catherine is an Orthodox Christian girl who lives in the...
I want to say that Patricia Polacco’s Rechenka’s Eggs is a fairy tale for Easter, but I’m not sure that it qualifies. It doesn’t have any fairies in it, no trolls or witches or other creatures that we know from the land of Faerie. And there is no human...
If you want a picture book that tells the story of Easter, you can’t do better than The Easter Story by Brian Wildsmith. The Easter story is difficult to do as a picture book. Not that it’s hard to put the events into pictures. There are cathedrals and museums full of...
The Egg Tree by Katherine Milhous is an old book, but a distinguished one. First published in 1950, it is the only Easter book ever to win the Caldecott Medal. And so The Egg Tree has been on my wishlist for some time now, and I was delighted when I stumbled across it...
How do you find really good Easter or Pascha books for your little one? Well, you could just order a copy of Catherine’s Pascha for them. But maybe you got that last year, and you want a different book this year, but you can’t find one you like. I’ll...