Spring is almost here!!! Easter is just around the corner, and a holiday that is loved by children all around the world. Get hoping into reading this spring with your child’s favorite characters like Peppa, The Berenstain Bears, Clifford and more, as they go on Easter egg hunts, celebrate Easter Sunday and pet cute furry little bunnies. A great gift to be added into any child’s Easter basket is the gift of reading! So why not start a new tradition this year by gifting your child one of these 15 Easter Books for Children!
Hop Into Spring: 15 Easter Books for Children
Bright Baby Touch and Feel Easter $3.70 Ages 1-3
This is an ideal first word and picture board book 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 lots of different touch-and-feel textures including foil, glitter and fabric which little fingers will just love to explore.
Clifford’s Happy Easter $3.99 Ages 3-5
Read all about Clifford’s BIG ideas! Classic Clifford reissued with stickers! It only takes a little to BE BIG! Clifford loves to help Emily Elizabeth, but his big red paws break eggs instead of painting them. Luckily, Clifford helps Emily another way–in her dreams! A bucket of Easter-egg dye creates the most colorful Clifford adventure yet, and gets Emily ready for an unforgettable holiday. Fun Easter stickers included!
Duck & Goose, Here Comes the Easter Bunny! $6.29 Ages 2-5
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.
Fancy Nancy’s Elegant Easter $6.29 Ages 4-8
Nancy prepares an elegant Easter affair in this fancy new lift-the-flap book! Throwing a fabulous and fancy Easter party is a very big job—and Nancy and Bree are in charge of decorating! This book includes thirteen flaps that open to reveal hidden surprises that will delight all festive Fancy Nancy fans!
Happy Easter, Mouse! $4.29 Ages 2-5
Join Mouse from If You Give a Mouse a Cookie as he tries to figure out who’s leaving Easter eggs all over his house!
It’s Easter, Little Critter! $6.99 Ages 4-8
Little Critter is very excited on Easter morning. He wakes up to find a present from Mom and Dad—a bunny named Egg. But there is much to be done before Little Critter can go out and play. Join Little Critter as he makes Easter baskets and cards, paints Easter eggs, and more. Lift the flaps and find out what Easter surprises are in store. Also, Happy Easter, Little Critter.
It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown $7.99 Ages 4-8
It’s almost Easter and everyone’s getting ready for the holiday with a big Easter egg hunt. When Marcie mentions she’s never colored Easter eggs, Peppermint Patty decides to show her how. After Marcie ruins two batches by frying and scrambling them, Peppermint Patty tells her the eggs must be boiled…but she forgets to tell Marcie not to crack the eggs. Marcie ends up making a big batch of egg drop soup! Now there are no eggs to be colored! Will the Easter Beagle come to the rescue before the holiday is ruined? © 2016 Peanuts Worldwide LLC. Also available on DVD.
Llama Llama Easter Egg $5.99 Ages 2-5
With short and simple rhyming text, the Llama Llama board books introduce Llama Llama to babies and toddlers before they’re ready for longer full-length stories. And their small size and durable pages are perfect for little hands. In Llama Llama Easter Egg, the Easter Bunny brings lots of treats for Llama Llama: jelly beans, colorful eggs, and a fluffy surprise!
Ollie’s Easter Eggs $6.29 Ages 2-5
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! Dunrea again gets the preschooler emotions exactly right, capturing a range of holiday-inspired feelings, from Ollie’s wiggly impatience to be included to the pure joy of the older goslings discovering that Ollie has arranged the best Easter egg hunt of all. Includes sheet of colorful stickers!
Peppa’s Easter Egg Hunt $3.99 Ages 3-5
It’s springtime, and Grandpa Pig has set up an Easter egg hunt for Peppa Pig and her friends! Join Peppa, Rebecca Rabbit, and Freddy Fox as they search for delicious chocolate eggs and even see baby chicks hatching in the yard!
Pete the Cat: Big Easter Adventure $5.72 Ages 4-8
Join Pete in Pete the Cat picture book series as Pete has a groovy Easter adventure. In this paper-over-board picture book, complete with poster, punch-out cards, and stickers, Pete helps out the Easter Bunny!
Pinkalicious: Eggstraordinary Easter $4.05 Ages 4-8
When Pinkalicious wakes up on Easter morning, she finds a note from Edgar Easter Bunny that sends the Pinkerton family on an eggsciting Easter scavenger hunt! Includes stickers!
The Berenstain Bears’ Easter Sunday $3.99 Ages 4-8
The Bear Family, all of their friends and family, and even the nature all around them get dressed in their Easter best for an Easter Sunday celebration at the Chapel in the Woods. Join Mama, Papa, Brother, sisters and Honey as they go to services, have an Easter treasure hunt, and learn what Easter is all about. Also, The Berenstain Bears and the Real Easter Eggs and The Berenstain Bears and the Easter Story are great additional Easter books for children.
The Biggest Easter Basket Ever $4.99 Ages 4-8
As Mouseville prepares for a gala Easter celebration on the village green, complete with a biggest Easter Basket contest, two lovable mice learn a lesson in cooperation — and fun! Town mouse Clayton and country mouse Desmond continue to teach the benefits of collaboration and friendship in another sweet story centered around this joyful holiday.
The Story of the Easter Bunny $4.95 Ages 4-8
On a snow-cold day in a snug little house . . .Everyone knows that the Easter Bunny comes every year with a basket of painted eggs and chocolates. But who is the Easter Bunny, and what is his story? At last, the famous bunny’s secrets are revealed in this delightful tale perfect for springtime!
For more Easter time fun, be sure to check out these fun and easy Easter crafts. What are some of your child’s favorite Easter books? Let me know which Easter books for children you love so I can add them to this list!
Comments (4)
Wonderful idea! I love the idea to get kids reading as early as possible
Anything that gets children reading REAL paper books gets my wholehearted support!
Thank you so much for this list! I have three nieces and nephews who are young enough to enjoy books like these. I could put one of the books in each of their Easter baskets!! 🙂
I love all these books.