Linda Rooks has written a book every parent and grandparent will appreciate and want to share with children this Easter.
Your picture book, The Bunny Side of Easter, is a story about the Easter bunny, but it's also a Christian book. That's an interesting combination. Would you tell us about this?
While the storyline of The Bunny Side of Easter is basically an exciting adventure about how an ordinary rabbit's heroism made him the Easter bunny, bits of allegory are used to point children to what Jesus did on the cross.
A discussion guide on my website gives parents, grandparents and teachers a tool to help them talk about the story with their children so they can uncover both the similarities and differences between what the bunny did to save an angel and what Jesus did for us on the cross. There are also a number of things on the website specifically for children that can actually lead them to make a decision for Christ. The website features some fun things for children to do as well.
What age is the book intended for?
The target ages are from 5 to 8. But children as young as 4 and as old as 9 have enjoyed the book too. I've even read the book to a couple of three-year-olds. The beautiful watercolor illustrations are captivating so even when the words are a little too many, the pictures draw them in.
Why should a parent or grandparent get a copy of The Bunny Side of Easter for their child for Easter?
On Easter morning, as parents and grandparents watch their children scurry about the yard, looking for Easter eggs, many feel a disconnect between the legend of the Easter bunny and what their children will be taught in Sunday school a couple of hours later. How do we explain the Easter bunny? It's even hard to know how to best explain Easter to a child anyway, let alone mixing it up with the whole Easter bunny business.
The Bunny Side of Easter fills this gap, taking children on an exciting and charming adventure with hints of allegory that point children to the true significance of Easter.
The book creates a great venue to tie the Easter bunny into the true theme of Easter so that it can actually help you explain more easily to your child what Easter is all about.
The book is available at Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Amazon and bookstores throughout the country. You can see more about Linda Rooks and her books on her Bunny Side of Easter website.
Author Linda W. Rooks published her first adult book, Broken Heart on Hold, with David C. Cook in 2006. Now she takes her life-long love of children's books and uses it to tell a winsome, but exciting adventure that points children to the real meaning of Easter.
If you would like to enter a drawing to win a copy of Linda's book, contact me.
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