Easter is coming so the bunnies have to collect eggs and paint them so they have something to hide for the humans. The problem is that the bunnies don't have any eggs to paint. They go ask a hen for her eggs. She gives them to the bunnies, after much pleading, on the basis that since they haven't hatched yet they probably won't. The bunnies take them home, and paint them, but suddenly they hear noises inside the eggs, and the eggs hatch! Because the bunnies had painted the eggs, the chicks were also all colorful, and though there were no Easter eggs, there were colorful chickens.
While not poor in itself, this story is not memorable. The bunnies don't triumph over adversity, or do anything remarkable other than persuading a chicken to give up her eggs. That a chicken would give up her eggs is hard to believe, as is the way the chicks changed color because the outside of the eggs were painted. Not only is the story rather drab, the pictures are too. While the bunnies are very life-like, as is the chicken, they lack luster. They are colorful, but just aren't outstanding. At times the expressions on the bunnies don't seem to match the story.
Another thing I don't really like about this story is that in many places the page turns are in the middle of sentences, which sometimes works really well, but other times is just awkward. In this book the tendency is toward the latter.
So, an okay book, with no really stellar qualities.
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