Five Little Easter Eggs

Jocelyn Jamison, William Boniface. Price Stern Sloan, $5.99 (12pp) ISBN 978-0-8431-0233-8

Colorful plastic eggs peek out of the die-cut cover of the paper-over-board book Five Little Easter Eggs by William Boniface, illus. by Lynn Adams. With each passing page, a gang of bunnies hides an egg from view, inviting readers to count down with them to one.

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