Children's Easter stories

A variety of Easter stories

Updated March 21, 2023
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Easter : touch and feel
Paper Book
This is an ideal first word and picture board book from Roger Priddy to share with your baby or toddler as a first step to discovering Easter traditions. The pages feature bright pictures of chocolate eggs, Easter baskets, chicks, bunnies and more to look at, and there are...
The Berenstain Bears' Easter surprise
Berenstain, Stan 1923-2005
Paper Book
It's Easter time for the Berenstain Bears, and everyone remembers one very special Easter surprise. Full color.
Clifford's happy Easter
Bridwell, Norman
Paper Book
Everyone has a happy Easter when Clifford is around!
The very hungry caterpillar's Easter egg hunt : a lift-the-flap book
Carle, Eric
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Join The Very Hungry Caterpillar on an Easter egg hunt in this fun-filled lift-the-flap board book perfect for little hands and curious minds. A horse and cow are grazing Right beside the barn. Will you find some Easter eggs...
Easter bugs : a springtime pop-up
Carter, David A.
Paper Book
All kinds of bugs celebrate Easter in this book filled from award-winner David Carter! All kinds of bugs are hiding behind colorful Easter eggs, just waiting for you to find them! (And there are lots more fun surprises, too!)
Pete the cat : big Easter adventure
Dean, Kim 1969-
Paper Book
#1 New York Times bestseller! Pete jumps in to help the Easter Bunny in Pete the Cat: Big Easter Adventure--which comes complete with 12 Easter cards, a fold-out poster, and stickers. Author and artist James Dean brings us along for a hippity-hoppity...
Llama Llama Easter egg
Dewdney, Anna
Paper Book
Anna Dewdney'sNew York Timesbestselling series continues with a Llama Llama Easter board book, a perfect gift and great addition to any Easter basket! With short and simple rhyming text, the Llama Llama board books introduce Llama Llama to babies and toddlers before they...
Easter
Dickmann, Nancy.
Paper Book
Every year families gather to celebrate Easter with both religious and secular activities. From attending church to hunting for colorfully decorated eggs, readers will learn about the importance of Easter and the many ways people honor this day.
Ollie's Easter eggs
Dunrea, Olivier.
Paper Book
Gossie, Gertie, BooBoo, and Peedie are all dyeing Easter eggs. Ollie wants Easter eggs too and he has a plan on how he'll get them! Humor and vibrant ink-and-watercolor illustrations fill Olivier Dunrea's holiday follow-up to Merry Christmas, Ollie. Dunrea again gets the preschooler emotions...
The story of Easter
Fisher, Aileen 1906-2002
Paper Book
With an informative text and glorious illustrations, this book explains both how and why people all over the world celebrate Easter. It tells the biblical story of Jesus’ Resurrection and then describes how people honor this day and the origins of these traditions. Hands-on activities help draw...
It's the Easter beagle, Charlie Brown
Schulz, Charles M.
Paper Book
The Easter bunny that overslept
Friedrich, Priscilla.
Paper Book
One spring morning, the Easter Bunny skips merrily along to deliver his colorful, hand-painted eggs. But the children tell him that it's Mother's Day, which can only mean one thing: HE SLEPT THROUGH EASTER! Nobody wants eggs on Mother's Day, or on the Fourth of July -- and especially not on...
Pooh's Easter egg hunt
Gaines, Isabel.
Paper Book
It's Easter time, and Pooh and his friends are having an Easter egg hunt. But Pooh doesn't realize his basket has a hole in the bottom, and he's losing his eggs as fast as he's finding them!
Otter loves Easter!
Garton, Sam
Paper Book
Otter--the irrepressible picture book character, sure to be adored by fans of Llama Llama--celebrates Easter with a little too much chocolate and a lot of creativity in this paper-over-board book. This year the Easter Bunny brought Otter lots of chocolate eggs--her favorite!...
Easter
Gibbons, Gail.
Paper Book
The story, how it is celebrated today, and the origin of some traditions.
Celebrate Easter
Heiligman, Deborah.
Paper Book
The joyous celebration of Easter is seen through a global perspective in this National Geographic volume featuring over 25 vibrant photographs. Witness the holiest day on the Christian calendar as it is celebrated throughout the world: from the famous Easter Egg Roll at the White House to the...
Silly Tilly and the Easter Bunny
Hoban, Lillian.
Paper Book
One morning Silly Tilly Mole wakes up and smells jelly beans. She thinks sheforgot to remember Easter. She wants to ask the Easter Bunny in for a cup of tea, but where are her glasses and Easter bonnet Tilly is so silly she forgets what she's looking for--and almost misses Easter!
We're going on an egg hunt
Hughes, Laura (Illustrator of children's books)
Paper Book
A perfect story for Easter and springtime, this delightful read-aloud also features ten lift-the-flaps! We're going on an egg hunt. We're going to find them all. We're REALLY excited. Hooray for Easter Day! Join a family of bunnies...
Eggstraordinary Easter
Kann, Victoria.
Paper Book
This 8x8 storybook with a page of stickers sends the Pinkerton family on an eggsciting Easter scavenger hunt! When Pinkalicious wakes up on Easter morning, she finds a note from Edgar Easter Bunny that leads to a fun family day. Your family will enjoy sharing this storybook and...
The miracle of Easter
Malone, Jean M.
Paper Book
This easy-to-read book with gentle illustrations tells the well-known Bible story of Easter. It's a perfect story for children who are learning about their religion and starting to read on their own.
Happy Easter, Little critter
Mayer, Mercer 1943-
Paper Book
An eggs-tra special, egg-citing tale featuring the beloved Little Critter!  Mercer Mayer's Little Critter is celebrating Easter in this classic, funny, and heartwarming book. Whether he's dyeing eggs, searching for baskets, or snacking on sweets, both parents and children...
Little Bunny's Easter surprise
Modesitt, Jeanne.
Paper Book
It's Easter morning, and Little Bunny is more excited than ever. Not only does she have her own Easter basket to look forward to, but this year she's planning to surprise Mama, Papa, and Baby Brother with baskets of their own. At the end of the day, though, there is one more surprise that Little...
Bunny's Easter egg
Mortimer, Anne.
Paper Book
Bunny has spent a long night hiding Easter eggs, and now it's time to get some rest. But when she burrows down to sleep, something disturbs her, and everywhere else she tries to nap just isn't right. She tries the old oak tree--too noisy! She tries a little boat on the...
Celebrating Easter
Nielsen, Shelly 1958-
Paper Book
Rhyming text introduces aspects of this important Christian holiday.
Curious George colors eggs
O'Sullivan, Kate 1986-
Paper Book
George explores the wonderful world of color, but can he do it without getting messy? While dyeing eggs with Steve and Betsy, George accidentally falls into a pot of food coloring and turns yellow! Remembering his promise to the man with the yellow hat to stay clean, George experiments with the...
10 Easter egg hunters : a holiday counting book
Schulman, Janet.
Paper Book
The perfect addition to your child's Easter basket, featuring the adorable kids from the New York Times-bestseller 10 Trick-or-Treaters and Lots of Fun With Counting!  Wake up, Bunny, move those legs, You've not much time to hide those eggs! ...
Saltar{237}n y el conejo de Pascua
Siegenthaler, Kathrin.
Paper Book
""Hopper, an arctic hare, aspires to be like the Easter Bunny in this cuddly holiday tale. The warm watercolor ilustrations embrace the reader in Hopper's adventures and the story's springtime splendor. A special present from the Easter Bunny reminds us of the mystery and joy of the season.""<...
Easter surprise
Stock, Catherine.
Paper Book
A brother and sister spend Easter with their mother in a little cabin on the lake.
Max's Easter surprise
Wells, Rosemary
Paper Book
Ruby and her friend Louise are decorating Easter eggs, but Max wants to have an Easter Parade. Big sister Ruby tells Max that the Easter Parade is tomorrow, but that he can help today by carrying all the decorated eggs to the Easter basket. But Max doesn't want to just carry the eggs'he wants to...
The bunny who found Easter
Zolotow, Charlotte 1915-2013
Paper Book
In print for almost forty years, Charlotte Zolotow's The Bunny Who Found Easter has delighted generations of readers. A lonely bunny goes hunting for Easter, where he hopes to find other bunnies. His search takes him through the seasons, but only in the spring does he find the true meaning of...

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