Easter is just around the corner and with it comes cute furry animals and magical adventures. From bunny rabbits to bees, to mice and even fairies. We’ve got little ones covered with these fun, adventure, illustrated books.

 

Mrs Bunny and the Easter Egg

Penny Findlow

Once upon a time, hidden deep in a forest, was a village known as Badger's Bend where animals and magical creatures lived happily together including Mrs Bunny.

Mrs Bunny owned the best sweet shop in the village and, with Easter on the way, she had to prepare for it.

She had so many orders, she didn't think she could cope so she asks Nobby Gnome for help. It was Saturday morning when they made their way to market; they met Mr Beaver, who warned them about the weasels being rascals and stealing shopping after giving folk a fright. Would they make it safely home with the supplies and be ready in time for the Easter celebrations?

Eventually, after a lot of hard work, Mrs Bunny finishes her own entry for the Easter egg competition.

She doesn't realise, though, that she is about to have an Easter surprise of her own.

Beatrice the Sunbeam Bunny Where Are All the Bees

Moraig DeWitt

Beatrice is a much loved, threadbare and saggy toy rabbit. She sits on the windowsill overlooking the countryside.

As the sun rises in the sky, she waits patiently for the first sunbeam's touch as it slowly moves across the sill.

At its first caress , the sunbeam transforms her into a bright furry yellow bunny, full of energy and life. She rushes into the garden where, together with Thumps, a brown hare that lives in the hedges, she learns the effects and importance of bees in our gardens. She shows the preciousness of water, what litter does to our countryside and how beautiful our gardens, countryside and creatures are.

She is Beatrice, the Sunbeam Bunny. Come with her on her adventures as she opens a world closed to many children today.

The Foundling Fairy

Flick Jones

Kicky is an abandoned fairy who never had the chance of being given a name or a title as to what her particular vocation was in order to fit in with the fairy clans. Whilst sleeping beneath an oak tree, little did she know that this was the turning point in her life. Discovered by Sessile the Tree Fairy, Kicky is introduced to the other fairies, most of whom accept and help her... except one or two. Orabelle, the Water Fairy, who is nothing but a troublemaker. As are the Pixies who have their own way of creating mischief. Our little Foundling Fairy soon finds her wings and, with new friends, finds her feet as well.

 

 

 

The Bee Polisher

William B. Taylor

The bees in the kingdom of Bumblonia were doing quite nicely until Malicia, in her glass wellington boots, became the Queen. If being sat on wasn't bad enough, then the idea of being arrested by a friendly local bee collection officer and spending time in a dark, dreary dungeon was certainly a bee's worst nightmare.

One misfortune can change life dramatically if it involves little knowledge of how nature plays a pivotal role in everyday life. Surely just because bees are not mentioned in a good book, it doesn't make them demons? If you tell people something enough times, they start to believe you! Even if yesterday they knew better.

How can we reverse the impending doom? Maybe a very small person with a gift for polishing may just do the trick.

The Adventures Of Twitch And Whisp: Fluffy

Karen L. Ashcroft

Meet Twitch and Whisp, two magical fairy mice!

Follow them and their friends on a daring adventure as they leave the safety of their cosy log home and enter the garden next door.

What dangers are waiting for them there? Will any of Twitch's spells work?

Twitch and Whisp are about to learn that a new friend can be found in the most unexpected of places.