Peter Easter Frog

by Erin Dealey, G. Brian Karas (Illustrator)

Overview

In this hilarious picture book, a group of basket-bearing, egg-delivering animal friends give the Easter Bunny a run for his money—led by Peter Easter Frog!

Here comes Peter Easter Frog, hopping down his favorite log. Hippity, hoppity, Easter’s on its—wait. Easter FROG?

Peter Easter Frog loves, loves, LOVES Easter, and sharing is caring, AND he’s just as good a hopper as any ol’ rabbit, so he decides to pass out some of his own Easter eggs. Why should Bunny have all the fun, anyway? Turtle, Cow, Dog, and Chipmunk all agree. But what happens when the Easter Bunny finds out?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781481464925
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster
Publication date:	02/13/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
Lexile:	AD460L (what's this?)
File size:	20 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Erin Dealey is a children’s book author of many genres, from board books to YA. She grew up in Oakland, California, and lasted one full day as an employee at a Pineapple Factory in Hawaii. Visit her at ErinDealey.com.

Editorial Reviews

02/08/2021

Peter Easter Frog, garbed in a blush newsboy cap, red-hued blazer, and aqua bowtie, loves Easter—enough to make moves on the Easter Bunny’s job and hand out eggs to the other animals. “Here comes Peter Easter Frog,/ hopping down his favorite log,” Dealey begins, the typography shifting to a hand-scrawled look to convey Peter’s conversation with a hat-wearing Turtle, who expresses suspicion (“Hey! You’re not the bunny”) before hearing out Peter’s cheery rebuttal (“Why should Bunny have all the fun?”) and joining it on its Easter rounds. The pattern continues in this way, Peter accruing additional animals—Cow, Dog, and Chipmunk—until the group meets the Easter Bunny himself. Karas adds pastel-washed mixed-media illustrations featuring dynamic, doodle-like characters wearing festive Easter garb in this charming Easter volume for animal lovers. Ages 4–8. (Jan.)

Publishers Weekly

03/01/2021

Toddler-PreS—A friendly frog takes over the Easter Bunny's responsibilties in this cheeky Easter story. The happy frog hops through the forest with a basket of Easter eggs, encountering a variety of creatures along the way, including a turtle, a cow, a sheepdog, a squirrel, and finally, the Easter Bunny himself. Each creature reacts with surprise but is soon won over by Frog's upbeat positivity and joins him on his endeavors. Humorous rhymes and wordplay ("clippity, cloppity"; "yippity, yappity") keep the story bouncing along. The warm mixed-media illustrations invite readers to linger on the animal's curious faces and their funky accessories. VERDICT A great addition to Easter book collections for the youngest readers.—Kristy Pasquariello, Westwood P.L., MA

School Library Journal

2021-01-13
You may know the Easter Bunny, but get ready to meet Peter Easter Frog!

Peter loves Easter, and he’s not going to let the fact that he’s a frog and not a bunny stop him, especially when he’s so good at hopping! He looks absolutely delighted to be hopping around delivering Easter eggs. As he hops along, so does a repeated refrain, which always begins with two words ending with “-ity” coupled with “Easter’s on its—” (“Squishity, squashity, Easter’s on its—”; “Yippity, yappity, Easter’s on its—”); each page turn playfully upends the expected conclusion of the line. Karas’ cheery art portrays a growing array of animals: a turtle decked out in lipstick and a spiffy Easter bonnet, a cow with flower choker necklace, and a sheepdog and a chipmunk sans finery. As Peter gives out colorful, patterned Easter eggs to the other animals, they are, at first, shocked to see an Easter frog but soon join him in his charitable mission to spread Easter cheer. The moment when the cow responds to the dog’s challenge that she is not a cow-bunny by pointing out its own breed as a “sheepdog” may elicit laughs, especially from adult readers. When the group finally meets the real Easter Bunny—hilariously, at the end of a dark tunnel—it seems that things may go awry, but all ends hoppily, happily, and inclusively. The text does not use dialogue tags, instead setting narration and dialogue in separate, distinctive typefaces; unfortunately, this design is not consistently applied, which may confuse readers.(This book was reviewed digitally with 10-by-22-inch double-page spreads viewed at 26.8% of actual size.)

Charming Easter fun. (Picture book. 3-5)

Kirkus Reviews