Explore our top picks of Easter books for kids that make great Easter Basket gifts! Perfect for teaching traditions, sparking imagination, and filling your child’s Easter with delightful stories! Every book in this selection is an egg-ceptional Easter gifting choice for children!
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Our list includes forty of the best Easter board books and interactive books that capture the spirit of Easter time. Our favorite Easter books make the perfect gift for young readers.
Why should parents read Easter books to their kids?
Reading Easter books to your kids offers numerous benefits:
Cultural Education: Easter books can help children understand the cultural and religious significance of the holiday, introducing them to traditions and customs in an engaging way.
Enhances Reading Skills: Like any form of reading, Easter books can improve vocabulary, comprehension, and literacy skills.
Bonding Time: Reading together is a great way for parents and children to connect and create cherished memories.
Fosters Imagination: Easter books often feature colorful illustrations and creative stories that can spark children’s imaginations.
Teaches Values: Many Easter books convey important life lessons and values, such as the significance of hope, rebirth, and forgiveness associated with the Easter story.
Encourages Curiosity: These books can prompt questions and discussions, helping children to learn and satisfy their curiosity.
Fun and Entertainment: Last but not least, Easter books are a source of fun and entertainment, making the holiday even more special for kids.
Best Easter Books for Kids
Explore the joy of Easter with our top picks for kids of all ages, from engaging board books like 'Biscuit's Pet & Play Easter' for babies and toddlers, to fun-filled adventures such as 'Pete the Cat: Easter Egg Adventure' for elementary kids.
Pete the Cat: Big Easter Adventure
When Pete wakes up Easter morning, ready to check out his basket of goodies, he discovers the Easter Bunny needs a little extra help.
How to Catch the Easter Bunny
Finding eggs is easy, but can YOU catch the Easter Bunny in action this year? He has a basket full of treats and tricks for staying hidden―plus that bunny hippity hops with lightning speed!
Biscuit's Pet & Play Easter
Cozy up for Easter fun with Biscuit, everyone's favorite little yellow puppy!
Pet the fuzzy yellow chick and hunt for shiny Easter eggs as you join Biscuit in this Easter touch-and-feel adventure! The sturdy board book pages and simple text are just right for babies and toddlers.
Happy Easter, Mouse! (If You Give...)
This board book with sturdy pages is perfect for toddlers, who will enjoy the simple introduction to colors and counting. Each page has one or two sentences and point out a different color and number of eggs.
That's not my bunny…: An Easter And Springtime Book For Kids
Meet five adorable bunnies in this charming addition to the much-loved That's not my… series. Babies love the best-selling That’s not my… books with their bold illustrations, patches to stroke, and a mouse to spot on every page, all designed to develop sensory and language awareness.
The Berenstain Bears and the Easter Story: An Easter And Springtime Book For Kids
Join the Berenstain Bears as they explore the true meaning of Easter Sunday and the resurrection of Jesus.
Fancy Nancy and the Missing Easter Bunny
From the dazzling duo Jane O’Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser of the bestselling Fancy Nancy series comes a great addition to any fancy girl's Easter basket and a perfect springtime read.
The Good Egg Presents: The Great Eggscape!
The Great Eggscape! Includes two sticker sheets, perfect for decorating your own eggs.
The Great Eggscape is when the Good Egg and his pals escape their carton and drop into the store for a morning of fun, enjoyed by everybody.
God Gave Us Easter
This is a great book for teaching kids about the true meaning of Easter while also allowing for the secular traditions of eggs and candy to be included.
Llama Llama Easter Egg
In Llama Llama Easter Egg, the Easter Bunny brings lots of treats for Llama Llama: jelly beans, colorful eggs, and a fluffy surprise!
Happy Easter, Curious George
One fine Easter morning, George and the man with the yellow hat head to the park. George can’t help but join in the fun when he sees children dyeing Easter eggs . . . but what’s that man doing with their prized creations?
Carry-along Tab Book: My Easter Basket
The cute basket-shape format, engrossing counting game, and colorful artwork all add up to a sweet alternative gift for toddlers at Easter. They can carry it round, read the story, and enjoy the color-themed game of seek-and-find, spotting all the eggs the Easter Bunny has hidden on his rounds.
The Great Big Easter Egg Hunt (Peter Rabbit)
This book is filled with fun flaps to lift as you help Peter look for all the missing Easter eggs.
Pinkalicious: Eggstraordinary Easter
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 stickers—the perfect Easter basket gift and springtime read.
Construction Site: Spring Delight: An Easter Lift-the-Flap Book
Celebrate the coming of spring with the construction crew from the bestselling Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site series!
Ten Little Bunnies: A Magical Counting Storybook
This book uses tactile bunny buttons to help children count how many little rabbits are left as the story progresses. Follow along with the easy rhythm and rhymes of this story and let your child touch the colorful, built-in bunny toys to give a creative and engaging hands-on approach to counting.
It's Not Easy Being a Bunny
P.J. Funnybunny is tired of cooked carrots and his big ears. It would be way more fun to be a bear, a bird, or a pig...right? Read along as P.J. leaves home and tries to determine who he is—and where he belongs. But this bunny might just learn that all he wants to be is...himself!
Happy Easter, Biscuit!: A Lift-the-Flap Book: An Easter And Springtime Book For Kids
Hippity, hoppity...woof! Join Biscuit on an Easter adventure, with flaps for your little egg hunters to lift!
Happy Easter from the Crayons
Easter is the perfect holiday for crayons! They get to learn new shapes and decorate one giant egg together...but where will they hide it?! Blue Crayon has some ideas...
Paint by Sticker Kids: Easter:
Includes everything you need to create ten sticker paintings on sturdy card stock: a bunny with a basket of Easter eggs. A bonnet that’s packed with spring blooms.
Easter Egg Is Missing!
The mystery of the missing golden egg unfolds during an Easter egg hunt in this sweet board book.
Five Little Chicks: An Easter And Springtime Book For Kids
The classic nursery rhyme—with a springtime twist! Five little chicks hatch, explore, and play in this adorable board book by acclaimed author-illustrator Dan Yaccarino.
Little Blue Truck's Springtime
Beep! Beep! Little Blue Truck is out for a ride with his good friend Toad. The sun is shining and the flowers are blooming—it's a beautiful spring day! Who will they see along the way?
Open the flaps to meet all of the sweet baby animals just born on the farm. Peep! Peep!
Easter Is Coming!
Mommy and her little ones are settling in for story time, and this time it’s the biblical story of Easter that she’s telling.
Home for a Bunny: A Bunny Book for Kids (Little Golden Book)
Follow Margaret Brown's furry, lovable bunny on his springtime journey to find a home in this Little Golden Book classic perfect for Easter!
Easter Eggstravaganza Mad Libs
Mad Libs is the world’s greatest word game and a great gift or activity for anyone who likes to laugh! Write in the missing words on each page to create your own hilariously funny stories all about Easter.
Hippity, Hoppity, Little Bunny - Finger Puppet Board Book
Look no further than Hippity, Hoppity, Little Bunny for adorable nursery rhyme books. Follow the little bunny rabbit and its adorable bird friends in this finger puppet book as they hunt for Easter eggs. Wiggle the puppet to make the bunny in the story come alive! Boys and girls will love this board book surprise this holiday!
Happy Easter, Little Pookie
Pookie gets ready for Easter in this adorable board book from the bestselling and beloved Sandra Boynton.
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Chick!
A wacky new Easter version of the classic "There Was an Old Lady" song!
Bear Finds Eggs
Bear and his friends hunt for missing eggs in this new picture book adventure in the bestselling series
Peek-a-Flap Hop - Children's Lift-a-Flap Board Boo
Happy, hoppy Easter from these springtime friends to your baby boy or girl! Each adorable scene entertains babies and toddlers with peek-a-boo surprises and bright illustrations of bunnies, chicks, eggs, and more.
The Itsy Bitsy Bunny
A fun and playful holiday twist on “The Itsy Bitsy Spider” makes this favorite nursery rhyme perfect for Easter!
Duck & Goose, Here Comes the Easter Bunny!
Join the egg-stremely popular Duck and Goose, and friends for a springtime adventure perfect for an Easter read-along!
Happy Easter, Pout-Pout Fish
Hippity-hoppity, the pout-pout bunny is on his way! Toddlers will love swimming along with the pout-pout fish this Easter as he turns little pouts into big smiles.
Disney Baby: My First Easter
This adorable board book with touch-and-feel elements introduces Baby to all the wonderful delights of Easter!
A Very Happy Easter
Fresh retelling of the Easter story for young children, with opportunities to join in with facial expressions!
Easter Chunky Lift-a-Flap Board Book
Introduce little ones to all things related to Easter and the spring season in this adorable lift-a-flap board book. Follow along as we celebrate with spring colors, get dressed for Easter Sunday with nice shoes and festive hats, and hunt for Easter eggs, while snacking on chocolate bunnies and jelly beans!
What did you think of our list of best Easter books for young children?
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