New Easter Board Books from Random House

I LOVE having board books in my house!  They are great for those hands that aren't quite gentle enough for paper books yet.  Plus, they are a quick and fun read!

Random House has released a couple new Easter themed ones that would be great as gifts from the Easter Bunny.

DUCK & GOOSE, HERE COMES THE EASTER BUNNY! by Tad Hills

Can Duck & Goose find the Easter Bunny?

 

 

Duck & Goose are back! New York Times bestselling author and illustrator Tad Hills brings our favorite feathered friends out to celebrate spring in this sturdy board book. 

 

Duck & Goose have lots of ideas about how to find the Easter Bunny, but will they succeed? Preschoolers won't be able to resist this latest board book featuring Duck & Goose, lots of colorful eggs, and the Easter Bunny. Duck & Goose, Here Comes the Easter Bunny joins the two previous seasonal books featuring the beloved Duck & Goose, Duck & Goose Find a Pumpkin and Duck & Goose: It’s Time for Christmas! 

 

 

10 EASTER EGG HUNTERS: A Holiday Counting Book

by Janet Schulman; illustrated by Linda Davick

This Easter-themed counting book is now available in board! 

 

 

Janet Schulman and Linda Davick’s latest holiday counting book is newly available as a board book and features the same adorable kids from the New York Times bestseller 10 Trick-or-Treaters, 10 Trim-the-Tree’ers, and 10 Valentine Friends. In this latest installment, the kids come together to count their way to Easter! 

 

Brightly-colored, adorable illustrations and a clever rhyme make 10 EASTER EGG HUNTERS a great book for reading aloud. Preschoolers are invited to help the kids find and count all of the eggs that the Easter Bunny has hidden in time for the Easter Parade. Booklist praised the book upon its release in hardcover stating “this will get children excited about Easter, the advent of spring, and perhaps even counting.”

MOTR Video: Easter Cake Fun

A, L and David finish decorating a homemade Easter cake and decide to eat some sprinkles too.

Easter Blues

First and foremost, my apologies on inundating everyone with reviews and no original posts- gotta pay the bills, and since there are so many, sometimes I get buried in them and have a hard time surfacing enough to think of worthwhile things to say- not that anything I say is necessarily worthwhile, but I like to ramble from time to time...

So today is Easter- go Jesus!  As a big fan of God, I do acknowledge this holiday.  And this year I have a huge case of the blues.  I'm going to chalk it up to 30% adjusting to my new bipolar meds and 70% not being around family for the first Easter in my existence.  Normally I spend every Easter with my parents and since becoming a mom, I have never spent an Easter away from my kids.  Well, this year I am not around either and it is lighting the edges of my heart on fire and slowly smoldering itself into the middle.

Without getting into negativity and drama, I found myself "unable" to go back to my hometown for the holidays.  I would have only spent a couple hours with my kids anyway while they did an Easter egg hunt, so it hardly made up for the sheer velocity of retribution I would have had to deal with by going back.  So, I told my daughter that I would stay home and make sure I was here to get whatever the Easter bunny left in case he left it outside the door.  She seemed quite okay with this idea and was not disappointed that I wasn't going back with her.  My son is too young to understand the concept of it being a holiday, he just knows that he gets presents... and don't even get me started on where the french fries this whole Easter bunny thing came from when we celebrate the holiday because Jesus rose... did he see a bunny and dub it the deliverer of candy and trinkets?  I don't recall seeing that in the Bible, but maybe I was skimming.

So what am I going to do on this Easter?  Well, I'm going to try to dig myself out of this hole of despair and emotional turmoil and try to enjoy spending the day with the boyfriend.  I know that I should try to make it special for him because he did not get to see his family either, but my selfish tendencies come in and I find it hard to muster a facade of excitedness.  I did start a crockpot full of loaded baked potato soup for dinner and I guess it's an Easter food because it has bacon and bacon comes from a pig and so does ham.

Okay, I'm going to wallow in self pity now.  Enjoy the day, whichever way you choose to do so!!!

Wordless Wednesday: Easter Edition