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Lizzie and Booker
The Easter Bunny That Ate My Sister
Lizzie hopes that Easter will be different from other holidays, but there's a little stuffed Easter bunny with a strange gleam in its eye Lizzie knows is going to make trouble.
10 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1996
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March 14, 2017
Okay, yes, I did in fact just read this book last week, and yes, I am in fact 30 years old.
In the midst of my "clean out all these old books you're never going to read" project I stumbled across this title, one of a small number of children's books that survived The Great Children's Book Purge of 2006. So I don't know, on a whim I thought, "Well I don't remember much about this, but why not take an hour to read it and figure out why I've kept it all these years?"
Because it's hilarious, that's why. I suddenly understand why this book made it into my collection in the first place, and why it has made the cut all these years.
Don't get me wrong, the book is stupid. There isn't really a plot, and the ending makes no sense, but damn if the 10 year old girl narrating this is not a clone of me at that age.
"You know I wanted to hug [my mom], but I didn't. I wonder why? I almost hate growing up. Half the time I do things I don't want to do and the other half I don't do things that I really want to do. Somebody figure it out, please."
"I'm dying, I finally thought, and I'll have to wear the dress that is too tight in the arms for my funeral. I remembered that I forgot to have my mother iron it. I figured she'd be too upset that I was dead to iron it so I would be buried in a dress that was wrinkled and too tight in the arms."
"I was not only on the moon [hey, I warned you the plot made no sense], but I was on the moon without a spacecuit, breathing like there was no tomorrow, which, at that point, there probably wasn't."
"I wanted to say, 'Don't smile at me. This has disaster written all over it.'"
I was ALL ABOUT exactly this kind of stupid, sarcastic humor in the 4th grade, and apparently still am, because all of those lines literally made me laugh out loud.
Also, I realized that this is what introduced me to the story of Demeter and Persephone, which means this is the book that inspired my pre-adolescent fascination with Greek mythology and the sixth grade English class final theatrical project I wrote after convincing my groupmates to let me adapt that myth.
Look, everyone has precious, treasured books from their childhood that spoke to them intimately, inspired their love of reading, drove them to new interests and passions at a young age, but that might not hold up well with age. For most people, that means Narnia. For me, apparently, it means The Easter Bunny that Ate my Sister.
I can live with that.
In the midst of my "clean out all these old books you're never going to read" project I stumbled across this title, one of a small number of children's books that survived The Great Children's Book Purge of 2006. So I don't know, on a whim I thought, "Well I don't remember much about this, but why not take an hour to read it and figure out why I've kept it all these years?"
Because it's hilarious, that's why. I suddenly understand why this book made it into my collection in the first place, and why it has made the cut all these years.
Don't get me wrong, the book is stupid. There isn't really a plot, and the ending makes no sense, but damn if the 10 year old girl narrating this is not a clone of me at that age.
"You know I wanted to hug [my mom], but I didn't. I wonder why? I almost hate growing up. Half the time I do things I don't want to do and the other half I don't do things that I really want to do. Somebody figure it out, please."
"I'm dying, I finally thought, and I'll have to wear the dress that is too tight in the arms for my funeral. I remembered that I forgot to have my mother iron it. I figured she'd be too upset that I was dead to iron it so I would be buried in a dress that was wrinkled and too tight in the arms."
"I was not only on the moon [hey, I warned you the plot made no sense], but I was on the moon without a spacecuit, breathing like there was no tomorrow, which, at that point, there probably wasn't."
"I wanted to say, 'Don't smile at me. This has disaster written all over it.'"
I was ALL ABOUT exactly this kind of stupid, sarcastic humor in the 4th grade, and apparently still am, because all of those lines literally made me laugh out loud.
Also, I realized that this is what introduced me to the story of Demeter and Persephone, which means this is the book that inspired my pre-adolescent fascination with Greek mythology and the sixth grade English class final theatrical project I wrote after convincing my groupmates to let me adapt that myth.
Look, everyone has precious, treasured books from their childhood that spoke to them intimately, inspired their love of reading, drove them to new interests and passions at a young age, but that might not hold up well with age. For most people, that means Narnia. For me, apparently, it means The Easter Bunny that Ate my Sister.
I can live with that.
February 15, 2021
😄😃😁😃😁😋🙂😇It's pretty good for me! I think it's just that you can use it in your class so it's good to read
May 8, 2022
These books are written bizarrely.
Like, I cannot for the life of me figure out the structure. 85% of the book is a lot of lead-up, nonsensical backstory, meandering chapters that don't relate to the book at all, and church scenes (so much religion inserted into this one.) Then a chapter of the actual thing in question occurring, with the quickest ending possible.
I really cannot peg this author down.
Like, I cannot for the life of me figure out the structure. 85% of the book is a lot of lead-up, nonsensical backstory, meandering chapters that don't relate to the book at all, and church scenes (so much religion inserted into this one.) Then a chapter of the actual thing in question occurring, with the quickest ending possible.
I really cannot peg this author down.
April 27, 2020
I read this to my class during e-learning. It wasn’t great, but I think the kids liked it!
February 16, 2023
So I found myself in an odd place in trying to read the saga of the holiday object vore series. The next one is Easter and the final one is Valentine's Day. That's not the order the days go in so when do I read them? I wanted to have them done sooner than later so during this in April and waiting til next year for the last one wasn't the best choice.
Thus, I flipped them. I'm doing this for V-Day week and around Easter we'll finish the series. Sound good? Eh, it works for me. Anyway, this series started rough and has gotten a bit better. Read my previous reviews for the details as I don't wanna myself too much. The last couple had major problems but just barley got to be passable.
Sadly, this brings us back to being weak. The setup is...well there isn't much of one. It's Easter ans the family is doing a bunch of stuff for it. Going to church, making decorations and such, and things like that. While life is going on, Lizzie starts seeing rabbits everywhere. Where is this going? It goes...somewhere./
First off, Lizzie is mixed again. As always, she has some charming funny bits here and there/ But more so than the others, she's says some bratty and judgemental things. Some are funny but she's more annoying than the last couple, mostly to Booker. There is one moment with mom that was nice but despite a bit with Booker, their thing doesn't change too much.
The main problem here is that this is the least cohesive one and that's saying something. Like the others, we spend too much time on life but now we have to wait over 100 pages for things to get weird. Now, we do have hints before that with the odd rabbit stuff going on but it's just these weird bits between all the nothing.
There's a greek myth info dump again but this time it's more just referenced later on rater than being important. Ralph comes back in an odd context and he doesn't do much beyond foreshadowing how she gets out of this...sort of? This gets Alice in Wonderland-y but they don't explain at all why anything happens. Why do rabbits appear and why does this hole stuff go down later on? No idea. Even the others tried a bit harder to have slight logic.
There's some charm in some of slice of life stuff. I do like that church is involved and they do reference the themes of Easter and Jesus and all that without being too preachy. An interesting aspect is Lizzie being afraid of death. Specifically, she becomes afraid of random bad things happening to her.
It's a neat theme to explore, although it isn't brought on by anything, she just starts having these for no real reason. There are bits where she turns on the news and isn['t all bad news, almost approaching commentary that doesn't go anywhere. She learns to stop these fears but it's random. Something happens in the weird black hole stuff that leads to her stopping this but it's random. She learns the lesson because she has to, it's weird and hard to explain but it's forced.
And lastly, the title makes no sense. This is still first person from Lizzie's POV so who is "My sister" here? Lizzie gets ...well not eaten so another lie but it's not Booker's pov so it's more like The Easter Bunny That ate Me.
So yeah, a weak one. Not too bad as it has some charm and decent ideas but it feels like they just kind of gave up. It feels like a repeat of what we had before but it makes the problem worse for less cohesion. It's a shame the improvement stopped but ah well. It's a weird one and not in the best ways. It has its moments but I'd skip this one.
I'm glad we only have one more. Maybe the day of love will bring us back to decent-ness, we'll see. Oh and there's a Goosebumps ad at the back of this because of course there is.
That's about it. We're slowing down on the reads now but March may be busier, we'll see. Don't know what is next, likely some random stuff. See ya then.
Thus, I flipped them. I'm doing this for V-Day week and around Easter we'll finish the series. Sound good? Eh, it works for me. Anyway, this series started rough and has gotten a bit better. Read my previous reviews for the details as I don't wanna myself too much. The last couple had major problems but just barley got to be passable.
Sadly, this brings us back to being weak. The setup is...well there isn't much of one. It's Easter ans the family is doing a bunch of stuff for it. Going to church, making decorations and such, and things like that. While life is going on, Lizzie starts seeing rabbits everywhere. Where is this going? It goes...somewhere./
First off, Lizzie is mixed again. As always, she has some charming funny bits here and there/ But more so than the others, she's says some bratty and judgemental things. Some are funny but she's more annoying than the last couple, mostly to Booker. There is one moment with mom that was nice but despite a bit with Booker, their thing doesn't change too much.
The main problem here is that this is the least cohesive one and that's saying something. Like the others, we spend too much time on life but now we have to wait over 100 pages for things to get weird. Now, we do have hints before that with the odd rabbit stuff going on but it's just these weird bits between all the nothing.
There's a greek myth info dump again but this time it's more just referenced later on rater than being important. Ralph comes back in an odd context and he doesn't do much beyond foreshadowing how she gets out of this...sort of? This gets Alice in Wonderland-y but they don't explain at all why anything happens. Why do rabbits appear and why does this hole stuff go down later on? No idea. Even the others tried a bit harder to have slight logic.
There's some charm in some of slice of life stuff. I do like that church is involved and they do reference the themes of Easter and Jesus and all that without being too preachy. An interesting aspect is Lizzie being afraid of death. Specifically, she becomes afraid of random bad things happening to her.
It's a neat theme to explore, although it isn't brought on by anything, she just starts having these for no real reason. There are bits where she turns on the news and isn['t all bad news, almost approaching commentary that doesn't go anywhere. She learns to stop these fears but it's random. Something happens in the weird black hole stuff that leads to her stopping this but it's random. She learns the lesson because she has to, it's weird and hard to explain but it's forced.
And lastly, the title makes no sense. This is still first person from Lizzie's POV so who is "My sister" here? Lizzie gets ...well not eaten so another lie but it's not Booker's pov so it's more like The Easter Bunny That ate Me.
So yeah, a weak one. Not too bad as it has some charm and decent ideas but it feels like they just kind of gave up. It feels like a repeat of what we had before but it makes the problem worse for less cohesion. It's a shame the improvement stopped but ah well. It's a weird one and not in the best ways. It has its moments but I'd skip this one.
I'm glad we only have one more. Maybe the day of love will bring us back to decent-ness, we'll see. Oh and there's a Goosebumps ad at the back of this because of course there is.
That's about it. We're slowing down on the reads now but March may be busier, we'll see. Don't know what is next, likely some random stuff. See ya then.
July 23, 2016
It was really terrible. I didn't read very far at all.
February 2, 2018
My favorite part was when Lizzie was back at home again and was fine and felt better My least favorite part was when Lizzie was being tricked and going crazy for some unexplained reason. My favorite charters was Booker because he tried to help his sister even though he had no idea of what was going on and thought she was crazy. My least favorite character was the magician man that pretended he was the substitute teacher, bit wasn't, and have Lizzie the stuffed Bunny and have her the idea that she was crazy.
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