Best Books for Easter

The Missing Bunny

If your little one isn't quite an independent reader yet, we always find the Little Gems books a brilliant option, with their slightly longer text than picture books and full-colour illustrations throughout to encourage readers aged 5+ to take their next steps. 

In this book, little Annie discovers her bunny, Humbug, has gone missing, and must find him before he gets caught by the neighbourhood fox. This is such a sweet and gentle animal story, written by the one and only Holly Webb, with soft illustrations by Antonia Woodward. 

Inside the book's cover is an activity to play, and this book will help your little reader build vocabulary, reading speed and stamina to develop a love for reading that will last a lifetime. 

Find the Duck at Easter

For the smallest of little ones, here is a 12-page sturdy board book introducing the concept of easter egg hunting!

This is a gentle introduction to Easter activities for babies and toddlers, with a small girl searching for Easter eggs on each page. But there's a twist: you can also search for a little yellow duck who loves hiding, too! 

This board book is perfect for small hands, which are sure to point at its bright illustrations, simple text and sturdy pages.

One Little Chick

Keeping on our board-book and novelty trend is this sweet 14-page story about the life cycle of a little chick, with such sweet and soft illustrations and peep-through holes.

This is an excellent book to introduce your child to the concept of life and growth, exploring how a little chick develops in her egg, hatches and begins to explore the world as a sweet little ball of fluff. The book also covers her growth, as she develops into a pullet, an adult hen, and finally begins to hatch her own eggs. 

The book also includes holes to peep through on every page, which makes the read even more engaging and fun for our babies and toddlers.

Little First Sticker Book Easter Bunnies: An Easter And Springtime Book For Children

This sticker book is an affordable and engaging option for little ones aged 3+ and we love that it includes over 190 Easter-themed stickers. 

Sticker books are always a big crowd-pleaser, and this 32-page book with a brilliant set of over 190 stickers to choose from is no exception. The entire book is themed around Easter, with pages about egg hunts in the springtime fields and baking treats for a picnic. Each page also includes little bunnies getting ready for the yearly celebration.

We can guarantee this book will make do for so many hours of fun for your little ones.

National Trust: Blossom Origami

Together with our little ones aged 8+, we couldn't be more excited to see a new National Trust Origami book come out just in time for Easter break, themed around beautiful springtime plants and flowers.  

All the origami books are published in collaboration with the National Trust, with beautiful paper-cut artwork from Clover Robin and poems. We've collected quite a few of these and love their clear and concise step-by-step instructions, which make creating origami super easy, together with the fifty pull-out sheets of nature-inspired origami paper. 

The book includes three different difficulty levels to suit both beginners and experts, as well as a QR code linking to video instructions.

We're Going on an Egg Hunt

And moving onto picture books, we're so excited about this Easter-themed reimagining of the American folk song, We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Goldie Hawk, with unique bright and bold illustrations from Angie Rozelaar.

Like all Nosy Crow picture books, this also comes with a free "Stories Aloud" audio recording accessible through a QR code at the back.

Harris Finds His Feet

For a timeless classic picture book to read to your little one over and over again, Catherine Rayner's award-winning classic-in-the-making will be a beloved addition to your little one's collection. 

This gorgeous book is about a small hare named Harris who is just learning to, quite literally, find his feet. His sweet grandad decides to show him how to use his big feet to hop into the sky, climb mountains, and run, run, run. It's a beautiful book about becoming independent, and a tribute to what our elders can teach us. 

This short 32-page picture book is full of heart and grandparent love.

Bee: Nature's tiny miracle

We've raved about this big and beautiful book for quite a few years now, and cannot stop recommending it with its large format, cut-outs and bold illustrations for toddlers and older readers alike.

Like all the books in the Peek-through Nature books series, this one follows the life cycle of a nature element - a bee! The pages explain its journey as it pollinates flower after flower. The peep-through pages are definitely a stand-out of this book, along with the lyrical text by Patricia Hegarty and beautiful illustrations from Britta Teckentrup.

This is a truly collectable book that will shine on your shelf thanks to its large format.

Paddington’s Easter Egg Hunt

We're big Paddington book and film lovers, so there couldn't be a book recommendation list without this 32-page picture book! 

In this adventure, Paddington is organising an Easter egg hunt for his neighbours. But not with challenges. The supermarket shelves are empty, the Easter eggs are broken... everything is going wrong! That is, until Mr Gruber’s book on Roman mosaics and some sticky marmalade give him a brilliant idea...

This egg-hunt themed picture book is such a sweet read for the Easter holidays about creativity, generosity and kindness.

Easter? That’s Not Right!

This funny, bright and bold Easter book is full of puns, mix-ups, bums and poo, which has been a big hit for our toddlers (obviously!).

Easter as we know it is turned on its head in this laugh-out-loud journey through all things eggs, rabbits and chocolate with a twist. We've got an Easter Bunny on a Space Hopper, eggs with legs, hot cross BUMS and chocolate that looks a lot like... rabbit poo! 

Written by Candy Bee with super colourful illustrations by Lee Cosgrove, this is a great reading option if you'd like to inject some humour in this season's books.

Five Little Easter Bunnies: A Lift-the-Flap Adventure

... and here it is! Hop Little Bunnies is also part of The Bunny Adventures books with flaps on every age and another counting adventure for little ones. 

Hop Little Bunnies: A Lift-the-Flap Adventure

There are lots of sleepy animals to wake up in this bouncy, energetic picture book. Lift the flaps, then hop with the little bunnies, cheep with the chicks, baa with the lambs and mew with the kittens. Interactive, packed with non-stop fun and based on the popular nursery rhyme 'Sleeping Bunnies', this jolly lift-the-flap adventure is full of the joys of spring and the perfect gift all year round.