Reviewed by Kathleen Grace
‘This most EGG-cellent Easter story will have the whole family
laughing out
loud,’ the publisher says in its publicity blurb. Told in rhyming
verse, it tells of a girl who decides everyone needs a bit of laugh when it’s raining,
and they’re all stuck in the beach house over Easter. So, when she catches the
Easter Bunny sneaking into the beach house, she can hardly contain her
excitement: she'll make her family's egg hunt EGGS-tra funny! Dressed in a
bunny suit, she follows the Easter bunny as it drops off eggs in Gran’s garden,
the henhouse, on books in the pool, and other zany places.
The illustrations, cartoonish and bright, are amusing, for example, accompanying the quatrain, ‘Pop’s on a health kick, Which he finds unappealing, So we placed all his eyes Up high, near the ceiling’, there’s a drawing of Pop reaching up to the ceiling fan from his gym mat. The two egg distributors bury eggs in a Liv’s sandpit, even placing a few eggs in Dad’s underpants.
Full
of Easter and egg puns (such as EGG-sausted, EGG-sactly, Egg-stremely) and
pranks, sniggers, and smiles, this joyfully illustrated picture book celebrates
family and fun: it's sure to be read year after year by children who still believe
in the Easter bunny.
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