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Our favourite Easter books for children

Add these egg-cellent children’s books to your basket this Easter – perfect for keeping little ones entertained this spring. From chicks to bunnies, activity books to beautiful picture books, there’s something for everyone.

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Where’s Baby Chick?

Illustrated by Ingela P Arrhenius
0-2

For babies and toddlers this Easter, Where’s Baby Chick is the perfect book! Each title in this stylish and bestselling series has five spreads with friendly characters to find behind colourful felt flaps. Can you find Baby Bunny, Baby Lamb, Baby Kitten and Baby Chick himself?

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National Trust: The Great Big Egg Hunt

Illustrated by Ekaterina Trukhan
0-2

This charming interactive egg hunt book from the National Trust is great springtime fun! Join Rabbit and lift the flaps on ever page to discover hiding eggs and other surprises. Will Rabbit find any eggs for her basket? Or will she discover something even better?

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Sing Along With Me! Sleeping Bunnies

Illustrated by Yu-hsuan Huang
0-2

An adorable bunny-themed board book, with robust sliders for little hands, and free nursery rhyme music. Toddlers will enjoy singing to the sleeping bunnies as they nap – and they’ll love waking them up to make them hop, hop, hop!

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Press Out and Colour: Easter Eggs

Illustrated by Kate McLelland
2-5

Make your own beautiful, 3D decorations with this book of press-out Easter eggs! Featuring twenty unique designs, the press-out pieces can be slotted together to create cheerful ornaments for your home this Easter.

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Make and Play: Easter

Illustrated by Joey Chou
2-5

Easter activities for crafty kids! Press out the Easter characters and decorate then, sing Easter songs, bake Easter cookies and cakes, and make some festive crafts, including a bonnet and an Easter tree. There’s plenty to keep little ones busy this spring.

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National Trust: Getting Ready for Spring, A Sticker Storybook

Illustrated by Kathryn Selbert
2-5

A beautiful springtime sticker book to keep children busy during the countdown to Easter! With 130 stickers and 11 scenes, you can fill the woods with bunnies, add birds to the garden, decorate Easter bonnets and much, much more.

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Pip and Posy: The Friendly Snail

Written by Camilla Reid Illustrated by Axel Scheffler
0-2

Pip and Posy are spending a lovely afternoon in the garden. But when Posy’s racket frightens away Pip’s new snail friend, Pip gets very cross… Oh dear! Can they put their differences aside and save the snail from a greedy crow?

A heartwarming new story in the much-acclaimed picture book series from The Gruffalo illustrator, Axel Scheffler.

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National Trust: Beatrix and Her Bunnies

Written by Rebecca Colby Illustrated by Caroline Bonne Müller
2-5

When a lonely girl called Beatrix meets two special bunnies, they become the friends she’s always wanted! Beatrix decides to write about Benjamin and Peter’s adventure in books for children. That way, her bunnies can live forever.

The perfect Easter gift for Peter Rabbit fans, young environmentalists, and animal lovers.

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Princess of Pets Book 6: The Runaway Rabbit

Written by Paula Harrison Illustrated by Olivia Chin Mueller
7-9

Princess Bea won’t let royal rules stop her from helping animals in need. When a lost rabbit needs a safe place to stay, Bea is sure the palace will be perfect. But when the rabbit runs away in the night, Bea must find her before she runs into trouble…

From Paula Harrison, author of the Rescue Princesses series, this is a great book for animal-mad young readers this Easter.

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Wigglesbottom Primary: Dino Chick

Written by Pamela Butchart Illustrated by Becka Moor
5-7

The strangest things happen at Wigglesbottom Primary! When Year Two is chosen to look after some eggs that are about to hatch, they KNOW something is strange about one of them. What if it’s not a chick egg, but a DINOSAUR EGG???

Perfect for Easter reading, these are more funny school stories from award-winning Pamela Butchart and illustrated by Becka Moor.

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Magnificent Mabel and the Rabbit Riot

Written by Ruth Quayle Illustrated by Julia Christians
5-7

If you’re looking for more laugh-out-loud reads for young readers this Easter, Magnificent Mabel’s truly hilarious and brilliantly illustrated stories are perfect!

Sometimes life isn’t fair for Mabel Chase. Like for instance she doesn’t have one SINGLE pet in her whole life. And ALL the people in her class are losing their baby teeth. And she doesn’t EVEN have a sprinkler in her own garden. But none of that matters in the end… because Mabel is still MAGNIFICENT.

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