Zoë
’s Book Pick of the Week
The Easter Bunny That Overslept
by Priscilla & Otto Friedrich,
illustrated by
Adrienne Adams
NY, 1957, 1983 revised edition, Lothrop.
An
Easter Bunny sleeps through his big day and finds later that no one wants his
colored eggs. He is clever and repaints them red, white, and blue to distribute
on July 4th. However, no one wants easter eggs on the fourth of July
and the noise of fireworks scares the bunny. He perseveres and makes another
effort on Halloween, but again, no one wants his eggs. He feels pretty bad by
this time, but Santa comes to the rescue by giving him a job making toys for
Christmas at the North Pole. I liked the cameo appearance by Mrs. Claus. At
last, Santa gives the bunny an alarm clock of his own, so he won’t oversleep
again, (it has numbers on it). The illustrations are all nice sherberty colors,
sort of like easter.