Easter Eggs and Matzo Balls

In this holiday story featuring a white-presenting blended family, Michael, who celebrates Easter, wants Passover, which this year falls at the same time, to be extra special for new stepsister Anna. But Anna is preoccupied: she can’t find her family’s Passover belongings, there’s no matzo in the house, and the stores are sold out. Cartooned images by Langdo show Michael dispatching a series of emails to the Easter Bunny, asking it to ensure that something special arrives for Anna via the golden egg prize of the Easter egg hunt. The story’s threads don’t quite come together—it’s not clear why the Easter Bunny appears to have taken the family’s Passover supplies, nor how the one tiny piece of matzo that’s revealed inside the golden egg is going to solve the family’s seder supply problem. But the step-siblings seem fully bonded—“Wherever the matzo is, we’ll find it together,” Emaus writes in Anna’s voice—and that may be enough. Recipes and a glossary conclude. Ages 3–6. (Jan.)