Sawdust Carpets: A Review
“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...
The Dance of the Eggshells: A Review
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...
Tekla’s Easter: A Review
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...
Rechenka’s Eggs: A Review
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...THE MAGIC OF BOOKS
Share the joy of the Pascha through the magic of a book: Catherine's Pascha.
