The Easter Chick

by Géraldine Elschner

Book Overview

Hilda doesn't know for sure. But Hilda's little chick wants to hatch on Easter Sunday, so Hilda makes it her mission to find the answer. A doting mother and her determined baby--with some advice from... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 073581855X
• ISBN13: 9780735818552
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: NorthSouth (NY)
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.7" x 11.4"
• Age Range: 3 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

A Great Tale

A wonderful tale. Should be read to every child before Easter Day (and by every inquisitive adult who just doesn't get the description of the dating process of Easter listed on page 880 in the (American) Book of Common Prayer). This book teaches, through a fictional story, the very elaborate and often confusing system used to establish the date of Easter. This story is told using a traditional Easter symbol, chick. The story uses the established animal for wisdom, the owl, to teach the mother chick how to know when it is Easter Sunday. There is a utilization of the number 3 several times. In the background of one page is the three cross scene of the curcifixation, as well. There are other usage of Easter symbols such as church bells, bunnies, and eggs (other than the chick). The mother chick, Hilda laid, "the most beautiful egg". Hilda learned in three steps from the owl how she would know when it is Easter. Hilda taught her chick using those three steps so that her chick could hatch on Easter Sunday. "The farmers' children, who were looking for Easter eggs in the barn. A little chick just hatched! On Easter Sunday! Isn't that amazing?" The Easter Chick is highly recommended.

A sweepingly illustrated parable

The collaborative work of author Geraldine Elschner and artist Alexandra Junge, The Easter Chick is a cheerful and enthusiastically recommended holiday picture book for young readers, about a chick that wants to hatch out of its egg on Easter Sunday. But when does Easter come? Sometimes it is March, sometimes April - it always seems to change every year. The chick's mother learns more about the moon and teaches the chick about Easter, so that the chick can have a special birthday in this sweepingly illustrated parable.