Last year, this Grandma’s suggestions for the Spring holidays still holds true for recipes, activities and gifts.
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Check Chasing Fireflies (www.chasing-fireflies) and Gap for the cutest Spring holiday clothing.
This Grandma is thinking books for this holiday season:
For Easter:
Toddlers:
Ollie’s Easter Eggs board book (Gossie & Friends) Board book by Olivier Dunrea. This is how it is described on Amazon, giving it five stars:
Gossie, Gertie, BooBoo, and Peedie are all dyeing Easter eggs. Ollie wants Easter eggs too and he has a plan on how he’ll get them! Humor and vibrant ink-and-watercolor illustrations fill Olivier Dunrea’s holiday follow-up to Merry Christmas, Ollie. Dunrea again gets the preschooler emotions exactly right, capturing a range of holiday-inspired feelings, from Ollie’s wiggly impatience to be included to the pure joy of the older goslings discovering that Ollie has arranged the best Easter egg hunt of all.
Buy here.
Ages 3-7
Looking for Easter Hardcover by Dori Chaconas. This is how it is described on Amazon, giving it five stars:
Little Bunny can sense something new in the air, and it smells like sunshine and warm breezes. “It smells like Easter!” his friends tell him. But Little Bunny wonders: what is Easter? So he sets out through the forest on an early spring day to find out.
Buy here.
Ages 4-8
The Easter Egg Farm Paperback by Mary Jane Auch. This is how it is described on Amazon, giving it five stars:
An amusing story about a hen that lays eggs with different patterns on them.
Buy here.
The Story of the Easter Bunny Paperback by Katherine Tegen. This is how it is described on Amazon, giving it five stars:
Everyone knows that the Easter Bunny comes every year with a basket of painted eggs and chocolates. But who is the Easter Bunny, and what is his story? At last, the famous bunny’s secrets are revealed in this delightful tale perfect for springtime!
Buy here.
For Passover
Toddlers:
Grover and Big Bird’s Passover Celebration (Shalom Sesame) Paperback by Tilda Balsley. This is how it is described on Amazon, giving it five stars:
Grover and Big Bird are in a hurry to get to the Passover seder, but – uh, oh! — there are many delays. Moishe Oofnik comes to the rescue in his tumbledown truck, but will they arrive in time to ask the Four Questions?
Buy here.
Ages 3 -7
Only Nine Chairs (Passover) Paperback by Deborah U. Miller. This is how it is described on Amazon, giving it five stars:
A seder for 19 with seating for 9 Will some have to stand while the others recline?
A rhyming tale for young and old presents a new solution to an old dilemma — the overcrowded seder. A Passover classic.
Buy here.
Age 5-8 years
Passover Zoo Seder, by S. Daniel Guttman. This is how it is described on Amazon, giving it five stars:
How would the animals celebrate their Seder? There’s mayhem at the zoo when not a single animal can find a Haggadah that isn’t too worn to read. Then, Shai Elephant remembers the ceremony and soon each animal has its own role in the Pesach celebration. This fanciful and funny Passover verse invites all to share a tongue-twister, chant the Dah-yaynoo with Horsey, steal the Afikoman with a Baboon, and end the meal with Lion’s Ma-Roar.
Buy here.
A Sweet Passover Hardcover by Lesléa Newman. This is how it is described on Amazon, giving it five stars:
In this charming and humorous story, Miriam discovers-with the help of her family and a little matzah bread-the true meaning and importance of Passover. Miriam loves spending time with her family during Passover, and all week long she is happy to eat lots of matzah. But when she wakes up on the last day of the holiday, she is sick of matzah and refuses to eat it ever again. Then Grandpa makes his special matzah brei for the whole family, and Miriam learns there’s more to Passover than just the matzah.
Buy here.
Hope your holidays find you surrounded by your grandchildren.
Joy,
Mema
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