The most common pitfalls in Easter books for children are: 1) violating the second commandment by depicting images of Jesus or 2) giving an unbiblical reason for Easter, or summary of what occurred at the resurrection. Books that come out into the house annually for a season are going to be pretty powerful for family culture so families should want to find good ones. This work is refining a child’s palette. A mother is helping shape an appetite for what is beautiful, as defined by God.
These are children’s books I recommend that capture the glorious meaning of Eastertide.
This list is separate from my springtime children books list, which I will compile at some point that would include themes of all of God’s lovely parts of spring: rainbows, rain storms, frogs, seeds or early gardening, bunnies, frogs, flowers, grasshoppers, caterpillars, kites, baseball, butterflies, or bumblebees.
- God Bless Our Easter written by Hannah Hall
- A Very Happy Easter Prayer written by Bonnie Jensen
- The Easter Story written by Carine Mackenzie
- Jesus is Alive written by Carine Mackenzie
- The Life of Jesus written by Carine Mackenzie
- So, What is the Gospel? written by Carine Mackenzie
- Jesus Christ to the Rescue written by Catherine Mackenzie
- The Prince’s Poison Cup written by R.C. Sproul
All of these would be $72 (at time of writing). If you wanted just a few, I’d say the shortlist of the very, very best are The Prince’s Poison Cup, The Easter Story, and God Bless Our Easter – in that order. But, all of these are strong and over a long time I have filtered out MANY ugly or poor ones, even just within the Resurrection Day niche!
If it’s helpful, I put most of these as amazon links, so you can source them easily there. If from this list you know of one I’ve missed that sounds like we’d like please tell me!!
This post is a part of my very selective curations series of books and movies.
“He is not here: for he is risen, as he said.”
