Wake Up, It's Easter!

by James Krüss, Frauke Weldin (Illustrator), David Henry Wilson (Translator)

Easter’s coming! Mr. Croak the Raven tells Vicki Vole, who wakes Rob Rabbit just in time to send the sleepy bunny hopping. James Krüss’s playful Easter poem sparkles with Frauke Weldin’s candy-colored illustrations as happy rabbits let the world know that Easter time is here.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens

32 pages, Hardcover

Published February 1, 2012

About the author

James Krüss was a German writer of children's and picture books, illustrator, poet, dramatist, scriptwriter, translator, and collector of children's poems and folk songs. In 1968 he received the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing, recognizing his "lasting contribution to children's literature".

Reviews

[Mir · Rating 3 out of 5]

The raven wakes the vole who wakes the rabbit who wakes some other rabbits who are excited about Easter. The author may be implying that the reason for rabbits and other animals being excited in the spring is because of the religious significance, but it isn't explicit. Not sure of the significance of the tablecloth-as-cape, either. Maybe this makes more sense in the original German.

[Luisa Knight · Rating 2 out of 5]

Cute illustrations and a nice story.

Ages: 3 - 7

Cleanliness: someone is called a "silly loon."

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[Jo Oehrlein · Rating 3 out of 5]

We have a raven tell a vole and a vole tell a rabbit who then tells other rabbits.
The story feels half-finished?

On the other hand, maybe it works well to pair with Bible stories about people spreading the news of Jesus's resurrection. (Women at the tomb, Walk to Emmaus, etc.)

[DiAnne Warfield · Rating 3 out of 5]

Holt-Delhi library Preschool story time 04-04-2023

[R. L. Peterson · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was an interesting poem, just a miss for us.

[Miss Melissa · Rating 1 out of 5]

Story was dull and had little to nothing to do with the celebration of Easter.

[Shelli · Rating 1 out of 5]

I really need to start writing picture books. It must not be as challenging as I thought it was.

[Marilyn · Rating 2 out of 5]

The animals wake up the Easter Bunny. The art is great, the story is ok.

[Lisa · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's a cute Easter book.