Ogres Don't Hunt Easter Eggs

The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids Holiday Specials #5

by Marcia Thornton Jones, Marcia Thornton Jones, John Steven Gurney (Illustrator)

There are some weird grown-ups living in BC. But could the man fixing up the park for the town Easter egg hunt really be an ogre? It's another EGG-cellent adventure in the best-selling series!

There are some weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the man fixing up the park for the town Easter egg hunt really be an ogre?

It's been raining ever since Brutus Bigg arrived in town. And even though he's supposed to fix up the park, he seems to be messing it up so no one will go there and bother him. Is Mr. Bigg an ogre trying to claim the park as his home? The Bailey School Kids are going to find out...but will they be able to stop him in time for the Spring Festival?

Pages of super spring puzzles and activities inside!

Genres: Fantasy, Childrens, Fiction, Paranormal, Mystery, Chapter Books, Adventure

96 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2003

About the author

Marcia Thornton Jones has published 131 books for children with sales totaling more than 43 million copies world-wide. Her works include CHAMP (mid-grade novel), RATFINK (mid-grade novel), GODZILLA ATE MY HOMEWORK (chapter book), THE TALE OF JACK FROST (picture book) and LEPRECHAUN ON THE LOOSE (picture book). She is the co-author of seven popular series including The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids, Keyholders, Ghostville Elementary, The Bailey School Kids Jr. Chapter Books, Triplet Trouble, Bailey City Monsters, and The Barkley School for Dogs.

Marcia has been listed as a top 100 author by the Educational Paperback Association and selected for the Children’s Top 100 Books list by the National Education Association, International Reading Associations Children’s Choice Award. Marcia's books have received many honors and have appeared on on the Publisher's Weekly Bestsellers lists,

Marcia, a full time writer living in Lexington, Kentucky enjoys presenting at schools and conferences. As a veteran teacher with more than 20 years of experience, she easily relates the importance of writing to students of all ages.

Reviews

[Brandon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ogres Don't Hunt Easter Eggs begins with the kids leaving school excited about having a few days off for Spring Break. They chat about this anual Spring festival that takes place in the park. The festival has a egg hunt and every year. They hide a golden egg with a grand prize. Last year it was a new bike. The year before that was a free trip to space camp. Eddie decides to go look at the park and scope out hiding places for the eggs .At the park it's sunny out, a really pretty day when they notice a beat up truck pull up and this huge guy steps out. Then Liza introduces her and her friends by name to a complete stranger. The guys name is Brutus Biggs, a tall bald headed guy with a greenish hue to him. They notice the weather starts to change to rain .The next day they end up going to the library because there's nothing else to do. It's still raining when they go to pick up books and look and see where they can find out where they're going to hide the golden egg. They get chased out Eddie ends up getting a book about mythical monsters and he claims that the rain is coming from ogres .Ogres makes it rain because that keeps people inside and they don't like to get around people .Same.they end up arguing about who can find the most eggs and they have a Easter egg hunt off thing and they hide them all in the park .They grab their umbrellas and hide eggs in the rain like idiots .They end up spotting Brutus running away from something. It's a cat .We learn more about ogres.It turns out that they used to be able to shapeshift into different things like coyotes and foxes, sneaking into the villages and steal things ,until a cat one day dared him to turn into a mouse and chased him away and now ogres are terrified of cats. Liza comes up with the idea of being his friend to show him people can be fun and he has none of it. He even says something that's actually kinda unnerving for a bailey school kids book. Something about monsters being under the bed .They end up coming up with another way to get rid of him and it's kinda cute. This was my first special edition book in this series and I never actually knew these existed. From what I can gather is the special edition books have activities in the back. A maze, a egg hunt and more , but this one was ok. So far the ogre is the scariest being that they faced .I give Ogres Don't Hunt Easter Eggs a solid three out of five stars

[Stephanie ((Strazzybooks)) · Rating 2 out of 5]

Love the series, this one was okay. And apparently ogres are afraid of cats?
🐣Read on Easter.

[Meagan Grauel · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think this is a cute book about a group of friends who band together to save their town's Easter Egg Hunt from a newcomer, who happens to be an ogre. I read it to my group of 1st grade students and they all really liked it.

I think it has the appropriate amount of dramatic events for their age group (7-6 years old) and they gasped at all the appropriate parts. They looked forward to reading more of it every week, which is high praise from a group kiddos who are easily distracted.

I love that one of the friends in our group of "heroes" knows about ogres because he was forced to borrow a book from the library and ended up reading it at home and liked it! Reading is awesome, and I like that even the kid who "doesn't like to read" found a book that spoke to him. And that the knowledge he learned was used to "defeat" the ogre.

[Melissa Namba · Rating 3 out of 5]

the ogre theme didn't really flow well in this one. and i hated the prize for finding the golden egg, like what a cop out.

[Alex · Rating 2 out of 5]

Another weird one.

[Danielle · Rating 2 out of 5]

This kind of felt like one of the weaker volumes, where the creature is only featured incidentally. I wish we got to see more of the ogre than the kids scaring him off.

[Dolly · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is book #5 in the The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids Holiday Specials series by Debbie Dadey and Marcia Thornton Jones. We haven't read any of the other holiday specials and at first I didn't even realize that it was a special edition series. I just figured it was one of the books in The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids series.

In any case, it was a short, entertaining story and even though it is almost Halloween, the Easter-themed book was fun to read together. Our girls really like these books and though I encourage them to read these books independently, I will humor them occasionally and read one aloud. We enjoyed the story and I'm sure we'll be reading more of these books soon.

[Sydney · Rating 4 out of 5]

when this ogre comes to the park and it rains liza and her friends don't know if the spring festival will be able to be open.

[Eva Gemeinhart · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book.It was awesome! It was funny that the ogre was afraid of cats!

[Miri · Rating 3 out of 5]

An ogre has moved into the park and has made it rain for days and days. Eddie, Howie, Melody and Liza are determined to get rid of him before he can ruin the Easter Egg Hunt.

[J.B. Mathias · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was one of the better Bailey books, and I had to check...yes this was released post Shrek because you can see the influence.

[The Brothers · Rating 3 out of 5]

Asher (7yo) read.