Jun 252013
The Easter Egg
- Colorful illustrations
jan brett’s illustrationsJan Brett’s lovable bunny hero, Hoppi, and her remarkable Easter Rabbit will enchant readers as they pore over illustrations filled with dazzling eggs made by Flora Bunny, Aunt Sassyfrass and others. If Hoppi can make the best Easter egg, he will get to help the Easter Rabbit deliver the eggs on Easter morning. But it is not so easy. Discouraged, he goes into the woods to think when a blue robin’s egg tumbles out of its nest. Hoppi keeps it safe and warm until the
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Moving, but not religious Easter story,
The story of little Hoppi trying to decide what type of egg to make is very sweet and full of good messages. Hoppi first thinks he will copy one of the types of eggs being made by the other bunnies but then decides that he needs to make an “egg that is right for me”. As he thinks about what to do he realizes he doesn’t have to win the contest and that he just wants “to make an egg I am proud of.” Then he selflessly sits on the mother robin’s dropped but unbroken egg so that she can sit on the two that remain in her nest. This book is filled with messages that I am happy to share with my preschooler. It does not contain any explicit references to anything religious surrounding Easter so if you want that you should look for another book. The illustrations are up to Jan Brett’s amazing, detailed, beautiful standards.
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|Horton Hatches the Egg minus the rhyme scheme,
Plot: Rabbit Youngster seeks to create great egg artwork, but instead sits on a robin’s egg until it hatches, and is rewarded by the Easter Bunny himself.
WHY I PICKED IT UP: Jan Brett’s latest? Of course!
WHY I READ IT: This books is HORTON HATCHES THE EGG with illustrations by Jan Brett. Remember that elephant, Horton? Pick up the tale about him and Lazy Bird Daisy Bird who flies away to Palm Beach for a spree and sticks him with her egg. Dr. Seuss really puts Horton through the wringer in his tale, and his illustrations are much sparser than Brett’s incredibly lush artwork but Horton is still fine reading. Interspecies egg hatching is retold every generation or two (Lionni: “Whoopsy, it’s an alligator!), but do your child a favor — read him both versions. The truth? I haven’t read Horton Hatches the Egg in twenty years and I just read THE EASTER EGG yesterday but Horton is still the more memorable character. But The Easter Egg is just in time for Easter, the artwork is superb, and the story is very nice. Read the endpapers on Brett’s book too — they’ll explain why all her rabbits look so different. She’s made a study of rabbit species, (did you know that Beatrix Potter had a real pet Peter Rabbit and autopsied it after it died?) and her verisimilitude shows in the fantastic detail which defines her style. Where is her Caldecott, anyway?
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|Jan Brett can never be wrong,
Jan Brett’s books are guaranteed great collectable books. I can’t think of another author with more beautiful illustrations than hers. All of my grandchildren love her books – some for the stories and some for the pictures, but I’ve never bought a Jan Brett book in which I was dissapointed.
This one is no acception. My 3 year old Grandson loved it and now reads it to his little sister. We even play “I Spy” with the many facinating things to be “found” in the illustrations.
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