Love Betty Bunny. This one is not as funny as the first one "Betty Bunny Loves Chocolate Cake" but I still love it. Great read-aloud for my k/1st graders.
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Betty Bunny is a handful. She loves Easter so much; she wants to be the Easter Bunny when she grows up. So when Easter rolls around, she's ready to collect lots of Easter eggs. When she realizes that her family is helping her, she puts her foot down. This year she is determined to find the eggs all by herself. It's not easy, but Betty Bunny discovers how great it feels to accomplish something on your very own.

The Bottom Line: This adorable installment of the Betty Bunny series focuses on independence. Little ones in preschool and kindergarten will relate to this Easter tale about learning to do things on your own. The festive, colorful illustrations are engaging and hilarious. Highly recommended for story time and bedtime reading.

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I liked this book for many reasons. First, when I read this book, I loved the message it shared. I thought it was a delightful book for children of any age. It is a book that can be shared around Easter, but there are more books written by the same author but they share different messages. This book starts with Betty Bunny telling her family that she loves Easter and she will be the Easter Bunny when she grows up. Every year on Easter they do an Easter egg hunt. It is not until she is older that she realizes her older brothers and older sisters have been helping her find eggs. One of her brothers says to her, “We always help you. It’s why you find so many eggs.” She was very upset and could not believe what they were telling her. The big idea of the story is then shared when her parents tell her,”…It doesn’t matter how many eggs she finds. Any egg she finds by herself will mean so much more than eggs that someone else gives her.” Hard- work, independence and satisfaction of accomplishment all helped Betty Bunny realize something. The author writes, “She had three eggs in her basket. That was all she could find. But her mother was right. Those three eggs she found by herself meant more to her than any eggs she had ever had.” She learned that it felt better when she did things on her own rather than having them done for her. I really liked the fact that this story can show children how much better it feels when they accomplish things on their own. The other stories in the series of Betty Bunny books all have their own message as well. I also liked the illustrations in this book because they were simple but each character had a different outfit, the pictures were not overwhelming and did not take away from the message of the book. The watercolor fit perfectly with the story. Overall I really loved this book and I hope to read the others in the series one day. ( )