Celebrate Easter with Stan and Jan Berenstain Bears: Real Easter Eggs!

L. O.L. O.: I bought this for an Easter basket two years ago for my then three-year-old. On the plus side, he still loves it and asks to read it as a five-year-old. On the minus side, it desperately needed more editing. This is painful to read! There are whole sections of text that could be skipped if the story was written more gracefully--they are either repetitive, or awkward, or use several sentences when a couple words or just a picture would do. My husband and I find ourselves making these edits on the fly as we read. (For example, skipping over Brother's dialogue about Sister going to the kitchen on page 4, since it's entirely redundant.) Later there are some inconsistencies where Brother and Sister have "big baskets" and then later "shopping bag(s)"--the illustrations are all baskets. I know it sounds nitpicky, but errors like this and the lack of "flow" overall really interfere with us enjoying reading the book with our kids.

United States on Aug 27, 2023

Jacqueline Baxter: I love this Easter story. I grew up on the Berenstain Bears so I love sharing their books with my toddler. I know that most of the Berenstain holiday stories can be really religion focused and being spiritual and non religious myself, I was pleased to find a really wholesome story for Easter from the bears without the Christian themes. I would definitely recommend this book!

United States on Jul 12, 2023

Christian: Granddaughter loved it

United States on Jun 22, 2023

MaryGreen2018: I hope the granddaughters will enjoy reading as much as I did. Bearenstains books. I hope this is the correct spelling .

United States on Jun 20, 2023

Gabriella Comeault: Great Easter book for the grand kids

Canada on Apr 03, 2022

Fiona L: My kids age 2, 4 and 6 all live the bears are country books!

Canada on Apr 11, 2021

Margaret Decloet: Love it 😊

Canada on Apr 07, 2021

Spunky: Good B.Bear story to add to collection

Canada on Feb 20, 2021

Silvana: I love the Berenstain Bears Books. There is always a life lesson to be learned. I read them to my grand cildren all the time.

Canada on Feb 23, 2020

ImmatrexImmatrex: I was pleasantly surprised with this one. As BB books are traditionally very Christian orientated, I wasn't expecting they'd have one of the best non-religious holiday books on Easter for kids. This book also had the added bonus of a maze in front and two sheets of stickers on the front and back of the book with images from the story, which will make a great little Easter orientated activity for my toddler.

In our family, we focus on the seasonal reasons and cultural traditions behind major holidays because we aren't religious. Easter has always been a favorite holiday growing up because of its focus on the renewal of life coinciding with the spring season change. This book perfectly reflects the non religious celebration of the spring equinox and reinforces the importance behind holiday celebrations not just the fun stuff like candy, gifts and egg hunts, but finding meaningful lessons. The only minor downside to this book for really little kids is it is pretty wordy and starts out talking about Valentine's day which is unnecessary. This book works perfectly for so many things, including even explaining a little bit about plant life and gardening which is awesome...

United States on Mar 11, 2018