Bunny hurries on, the mouse close behind. Again, there are no rabbits, so it must not be Easter. Next, they come to a field of daisies with a bumblebee flying overhead. Trout, but no rabbits, so Bunny decides it must not be Easter. It is a hot, summer day, and Bunny’s first stop is a pool of water where several large trout are swimming. The bunny may not notice the mouse, dressed in a yellow, shirt on the other side of the tree trunk. The rabbit is lonely he longs to have other rabbits for company. He has been asleep below a big elm tree (and, indeed, the leaves look exactly as those of the elm trees in our yard). The leading character of the tale is a white bunny dressed in a lilac-colored jacket. Looking closely, readers can find a grasshopper, snail, bumblebee and other animals hidden in the vegetation. Reading the book to children would be great fun, because lots of time could be spent studying the illustrations to identify plant and animal life. This week’s book, for Easter, is an older book, but that doesn’t make it any less charming, and the illustrations, done on paper with ink, watercolor and colored pencil, are gorgeous and full of detail. The illustrations for the book were done by Helen Craig. This week’s picture book for children is a new edition of the classic tale, published in 1998. “The Bunny Who Found Easter,” by Charlotte Zolotow, was first published in 1959, and the copyright was renewed in 1987.
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