Easter

Discover the meaning of Easter and learn how children all around the world celebrate this Christian festival.

Sam and his siblings are inviting you to celebrate with them! Join in as they prepare in the lead-up to the festival, bake Easter treats, dye eggs, attend Church, spot Spring flowers and new life, hunt for eggs, and enjoy a wonderful Easter Sunday of food and fun with all the family.

Along the way, you’ll learn all about this Spring-time festival, including:

• The significance of Shrove Tuesday and the period of lent
• The importance of the Easter story and Jesus’s sacrifice
• The fun to be had baking Easter treats and dying eggs
• The delicious food eaten and fun to be had on Easter day, from egg hunts to Easter lunch

. . . the joy and excitement of this Christian festival are brought to even more life with:

• Instructions to make your own Easter basket
• A recipe to make delicious hot cross buns
• A fun quiz to try out all your knowledge

In this immersive exploration of Easter, kids join a practising family as they celebrate. Seen through the eyes of young children celebrating themselves, this is a simple and exciting way to introduce little ones to this special period.

In the Celebrations & Festivals series, you are invited into a family’s celebrations as you explore the magic and excitement of religious and cultural festivals around the world.

NANCY DICKMANN is an experienced author and publisher of non-fiction books for children, specializing in science. She has a particular interest in space and has commissioned or written more than a dozen books about the topic, and in doing so has had the privilege to interview astronomers, a spacecraft designer, a Mars rover driver, and even a real live astronaut!

Emma Randal is a UK-based freelance children’s illustrator. She loves designing characters, detailed patterns and using bright colour palettes. She works firstly with lines, and then brings them to life using an eclectic array of paint, pens, pencil crayons and digital media. She lives near Bristol with her husband and three children.