Kindergarten Readiness: Easter Books for Kids

Sometimes parents ask the question: What is the best kindergarten readiness activity I can do at home with my child? The answer: Read. Share lots of stories and books with your child. Did you know that 3 or 4 books in a day, a days a week, can add up to 20 or more per week? Now, times 50 weeks that makes over 1000 a year. More than 5000 by the time a child gets to school. That creates a tremendous familiarity with language, a wide vocabulary, and builds a basic foundation of how books work. You can see the importance of reading to kids when you do the math. Of course, sometimes it’s only 1 book read a thousand times…

There are so many wonderful books about Easter that it is hard to choose. However, there are two of those ‘read-a-thousand-times’ that are favorites at our house. One of them is That’s Not My Bunny, an Usborne touchy-feely book. The pages have different textures like fluffy, rough, wooly, wrinkled, and soft. The simple text is very repetitive so little ones can follow along and find the special parts on the bunny. The other book that is well-loved is Pat the Bunny.

One of my favorites is The Easter Egg Farm by Mary Jane Auch. The eggs are so colorful and so are the little chicks. Another book that is an extraordinary work of art is The Easter Egg by Jan Brett. These two books are longer and would appeal to older toddlers. The video below is a reading of The Easter Egg with all kinds of sound effects. The illustrations are superb. While there are many other great Easter books, kids love any kind of book from anytime of the year. Books are also fun tucked in Easter baskets, not just ones about eggs and bunnies.
What Easter–and other–books and stories does your child like?