All about Easter

Always on the lookout for pictures of bunny rabbits and baby chicks, we’ve dug out the best Easter and springtime books – and a couple about chocolate, too. Take a look, but be warned… You’ll want them all!

  • Busy Easter

    illustrated by Jill Howarth 

    2021 0 to 4 years 

    • Board books
    • Interactive

    Easter is here, and it’s time to have fun! Toddlers will love joining an Easter egg hunt and counting chicks in this push, pull and slide board book.

  • Let’s go home, Baby Chick

    illustrated by Carolina Búzio 

    2024 2 to 4 years 

    • Board books
    • Interactive

    Can you help baby chick get home? A fantastic interactive board book with gorgeous illustrations of spring scenes and animals. Perfect for toddler hands. 

  • The Hot Cross Bunny

    by Carys Bexington, illustrated by Mark Chambers 

    2023 2 to 6 years 

    • Funny
    • Picture books

    Steve the bunny is cross. He’s failed to grow any chocolate eggs. Will his new recipe do the trick? An eggs-cellent adventure!

  • Pick a Perfect Egg

    by Patricia Toht, illustrated by Jarvis 

    2023 2 to 6 years 

    • Picture books

    A charming invitation to decorate real eggs, before joining in with an egg hunt. Inspiring for art lovers, yet accessible for young readers too. Delightful.

  • Egg!

    by Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet 

    2020 2 to 4 years 

    • Funny
    • Picture books

    Six eggs are having a lovely time when a seventh egg appears – but this egg is totally the wrong way around! Containing only one word – egg’ – this picture book is delightfully expressive and funny, as well as being a clever story about acceptance.

  • We’re Going on an Egg Hunt

    by Laura Hughes 

    2016 2 to 6 years 

    • Interactive
    • Picture books

    This Easter-themed lift-the-flap book will delight little ones who are already excited about the big day – or discovering the joy of an egg hunt for the first time.

  • Catch That Egg

    2018 4 to 9 years 

    • Picture books

    Floppit is a bunny with very big, bouncy feet. Unfortunately, he is just too boisterous for his friends looking after little ones. Is he too bouncy to be around? A lovely one to share with older siblings that may have a new baby in the house.

  • Santa Claus vs The Easter Bunny

    by Fred Blunt 

    2018 4 to 9 years 

    • Funny
    • Picture books

    Fred Blunt’s anarchic, hilarious story delights with a fat, complacent Santa and an exhausted, desperate Bunny whose bad deed manages to come right in the end. A delightful mash-up (or meltdown) of festive characters, full of genuine laughs.

  • Mr Bunny’s Chocolate Factory

    by Elys Dolan 

    2017 6 to 9 years 

    • Funny
    • Picture books

    Mr Bunny gets taught a big lesson about how he should treat his employees when his chickens go on strike in this funny and sophisticated Easter egg tale.

  • Supertato: The Great Eggscape

    by Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet 

    2022 4 to 6 years 

    • Funny
    • Picture books

    Supertato disguises himself as an Easter egg to try and trick the Evil Pea into returning all the stolen chocolate… but it’s going to take a little more than some natty foil to get past this evil vegetable! Can Supertato save the day?

  • The First Egg Hunt

    by Adam Guillain, Charlotte Guillain and Pippa Curnick 

    2018 4 to 9 years 

    • Picture books

    This original take on how Easter egg hunts really started is a fun, rhyming tale, with plenty of humorous detail in Pippa Curnick’s bright and lovable illustrations. The message is that working as a team is the best way forward.

  • Eggs!

    by Katie Dale, illustrated by Jenny Løvlie 

    2023 4 to 6 years 

    • Board books
    • Interactive

    A fantastic lift-the-flap counting book staring five different, gorgeously illustrated animals hiding in their eggs. Can you find them and count them?

  • Egg Drop

    by Mini Grey 

    2003 4 to 9 years 

    • Adventure
    • Picture books

    Egg has attitude! A burning ambition to fly and a refusal to accept that it can’t. But it is very young and knows next to nothing.

  • The Egg Incident

    by Ziggy Hanaor, illustrated by Daisy Wynter 

    2023 4 to 6 years 

    • Funny
    • Graphic novels

    Humphrey the egg isn’t allowed to do anything energetic – especially not climb walls. But when he and his new friend are locked in the park, he has to escape somehow! A very funny graphic novel that will have children giggling out loud.