The Best Thing about Easter

Christine Harder Tangvald. Standard Publishing Company, $8.99 (28pp) ISBN 978-0-7847-1285-6

Beyond the round-up of secular-themed Easter books noted in the Dec. 23 Children's Forecasts, two new paper-over-board picture books focus on the meaning of Easter. The girl who narrates The Best Thing About Easter by Christine Harder Tangvald, illus. by C.A. Nobens, concedes that she loves Easter eggs, candy, bunnies, ducks, chicks and so forth, but points out that the ""best thing about Easter"" is Jesus: ""I'm glad Jesus loves me! I'm really, really glad, aren't you?""

Featured Children's Reviews

Freya Finch

A fledgling teen Valkyrie tries to avert Ragnarök in Finch’s spirited, Norse mythology–inspired debut. Most assume Bryn Martel, her older sisters Prima and Reagan, and their Continue reading »

Deke Moulton

White-cued Benji Zeb—on the cusp of making his bar mitzvah—is struggling to keep many secrets as well as live up to the expectations of his kibbutz family. His first secret—he Continue reading »

Kristin O'Donnell Tubb

Contemporary Charleston, S.C., provides the backdrop for this cunning mystery by Tubb (Luna Howls at the Moon), in which a grieving tween’s often laugh-aloud misadventures in Continue reading »

Katherine Rundell

Writing in the tradition of rumbustious British children’s classics, Rundell (One Christmas Wish) introduces Mink, a headstrong city-dwelling child who “did not believe in Continue reading »