We are always looking for fun holiday books to add to our collection. This was more complex that I was expecting and not my favorite. I enjoy a good pun, but felt like this book had too many it would confuse young kids.

This was such a fun and different Easter Bunny book! We especially loved the detail of the chicken named Nugget! While it was a slightly confusing idea that the egg produced a dragon, the story's humor (and the ending illustration) really benefitted from this different take!

This started so cute a took an interesting turn. Children will think it’s funny, but parents of really little ones may want to do a quick run through first…just to get ahead of any questions. I love the illustrations and message of friendship. The rhymes were fun as was the play on words. A story to make you giggle!

5 Stars

One of the Easter Bunnies is grumpy/cross because so far his chocolate bunny has not yet grown. The bunny decides to get wild with the recipe to see if that will help the egg grow. An egg does grow but with a surprise inside... A Dragon!

This was a fun story, its silly and cute. I can see some readers not being thrilled about the Dragon pooping out chocolate eggs. It was a bit strange, but I know my kids will go bonkers for it and will die laughing. To me for a book like that that is meant to be more silly, its perfect for them.

The illustrations are fun and bright, the dragon is derpy and silly looking. I love it so much. I just love the illustrations so much!

Thank you to NetGalley and Quatro Publishing for this advanced reader copy. My review is voluntarily my own.

I will be also be posting my review to my Instagram page at the.littlest.bookworm and retail sites near or at the time of publication.

I really thought this was going to be such a cute book by the cover and description. It started out cute but the dragon pooping eggs I didn't really like. It was a bit gross to me and not really something I would want to read to small children. The idea was cute but wish that part could have been different.

This is such a cute and funny book! We were questioning those chocolate poop eggs but then we seen the picture at the end and understood that they’re not really chocolate or poop.

First off I love the angry bunny on the cover. The illustration is so cute. This is a book I believe my elementary students would love, mostly for the artwork. This children's book follows Steve a bunny who wants to compete in the Golden Egg Cup. Steve wants to try a new way of doing things, so he makes an egg. This is a special egg. Now what happens after the egg hatches is where the story will take flight. Literally. There's a dragon and its headed for the "Real World". Find out what happens and what Steve and Nugget plan to do after the dragon has escaped. I think that that the story itself was cute, but could have been improved a bit.

I thought this book looked like a cute Easter read so got it for my 8yr old. Her review is: “it’s a really weird book because they replace Easter eggs with chocolate poop, it was pretty disgusting”. Her rating 2/5, would not recommend to her friends.

A grumpy bunny deciding to make his own egg alone? With quirky ingredients, is a chaotic idea indeed! Oh my goodness the rhymes were eggs-cellent! And I applaud the art & passion put into this book! I was laughing, crying, and all in between! I needed this smile today so thank you to the author & illustrators involved.

Oh wow, I loved this. Such great vibrant illustrations, fantastic characters and to top it off rhyme. What’s not to love. This one is getting added to my basket to read to my pre school class at Easter. Loved it.

The artwork was the best part of this book. The colors worked well together and the way the characters were drawn really helped you get behind them and want to read what happened next. The story itself was cute, nothing too over-the-top. I think the humor of the book would make this a great choice for young boys, but everyone will enjoy the read. The message the author is trying to get across comes through, but you really don't need to understand that to like the story. I say just read it to enjoy it!

This is so freaking cute and I assure you the illustrations inside are so much better than what’s on the cover.
I feel like this is the only complaint I have about this book.

The story is about a bunny who keeps sulking about one bad Easter egg. And so his friend tells him not to focus on what would not work but work towards what would work out.

It’s a very simple message told through this short storybook but a very important one for us who loves causing more stress for ourselves!

The artwork is stunning! Okay more stunning than what’s on the cover.

Thank you, Quarto Publishing Group- Frances Lincoln Children’s Books, Happy Yak for the advance reading copy.

This book was so funny! It gives off How the Grinch Stole Christmas vibes but has a surprising twist I did not see coming. Good lesson, cute graphics, very engaging and fun to read. Five stars!

The Hot Cross Bunny starts off nicely, with silly rhymes and vibrant, expressive illustrations. The message promises to be a good one - perseverance, making new friends, changing your perspective. I think devolving into potty humor ruined the story and that makes it hard for me to recommend.

Thank you to Quarto Publishing Group – Frances Lincoln Children's Books and NetGalley for providing an advance readers copy for my family to review!

Review to come in March on my blog/goodreads.

I received this book from Netgalley/the publisher in exchange of an honest review.

Just look at that cover! Look at that title (which made me laugh)! I just had to get this one. Plus, Mark Chambers is one illustrator I always could use more work from~

I have to say it is a bit weird to read this book in early January when we just celebrated Christmas and New Years. XD Oh well, let's celebrate everything. *parties*

In this book we meet a bunny named Steve (and yes I laughed at that name), he is very cross. You would think that living on an island full of chocolate eggs and full of Easter fun one would be happy? Well, not Steve. And when we learn why, apparently he hasn't grown a chocolate egg all year, I could understand why he was so cross. Seeing everyone around him drag eggs left and right, dig them right up, and here he is on his hill... with nothing. I did love that he didn't give up on his dreams and went for it. BUT OH BOY, I was just thinking that this doesn't sound like something good, I mean, eww. And I was eager to find out what would happen next, because throwing all that together had to bring either something disastrous or something magical and weird. I loved what happened next, it made me giggle, and maybe also go a bit EEWWWW (I mean normal eggs are already like, umm, but chocolate eggs???). 

The ending was a bit predictable, but it was a fun one. I am happy for our trio~

I loved that we don't just see Easter land, but also get to see signs to other worlds. Like well, the Real World. But I also spotted a sign with 100 Acre Woods and one with a mermaid! I wanted to step inside the book and just take a peek. 

The art by Mark Chambers was a fun one again. Full of colours and I loved the characters. 

All in all, a fun book for Easter! Featuring strange eggs. A price. Easter. And more!

.This is an Easter bunny story. Started out extremely cute, - feels very much like “A Night Before Christmas” at times with the writing, a good moral to the story at the end.

My issue was that the Dragon laid “poop” eggs out his Bum. This resulted in a thousand questions from my 4 and 6 year old. 🙄

My kids - “you can eat poop?”
Me - “No, that’s not safe.”
Kids - “Why isn’t it safe?”
Me - Trying to figure out in terms they could understand that their older sister actually almost died from a bacteria in feces that got transferred to her mouth from dirty hands…Insert lengthy convo.
My kids - “But maybe some poop is chocolate like the book says, how do you know the difference?”.
Me - Wishing I pre-red the book like I normally do before reading it to them. 🙄😓

OMG this is the cutest book! Steve is a bunny working to make chocolate eggs. He decides to make up his own recipe and he does get an egg. An egg-ful day of fun! I can’t wait to buy this book. The illustrations are colorful and the story is told in verse.

Thank you to NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this adorable book early for my honest review!

Thank you Netgalley for an arc copy of this book.

I read this at bedtime with my three year old and it was so cute. The writing flows easily so you can read it in a tempo, the artwork was cute, and the story was really fun Steve is an Easter Bunny who is upset because he didn't grow any chocolate eggs, so he decides to try his own recipe, and his egg hatches a dragon!

I would totally read this to my preschool class and will have to buy it when it comes out because my son loved it!

An eggciting, rhyming picture book which tells the story of an angry bunny who wants to win the golden eggcup. Children will be amused by the concoction the bunny throws together to create an Easter egg from which hatches a dragon. The adventure continues as the dragon is on a mission to eat all the chocolate eggs and the bunny and his sidekick - with a very fitting name - try to stop him.

Adorable story! Grabs your attention and keeps you reading to find out what happens.

A bunny named Steve wants to take part in a competition, but realizes he has nothing to submit. So he comes up with an idea that creates quite the surprise. In an effort to fix their error, Steve goes after it and finds a new solution to save Easter.

It promotes doing the right thing and perseverance, in a FUN way. Complete with a rhyming rhythm that doesn’t disappoint.

The illustrations are entertaining and thoughtfully done. I enjoyed that there were more than a couple words on each page, but not a block of text that would be hard to read aloud to young ones and keep their attention. The chicken’s name is hilarious.

Bravo to the authors!