When the Easter Bunny catches a cold, the Egg Hunt is in jeopardy. Determined to save the day, two brave hoglets, Prickles and Primrose, team up with their friend Rosie Rabbit on a race against the clock to decorate and hide the eggs.
Hall Ways Review: Hoglets’ Great Egg Hunt is the third book in the new-to-me Hoglets, Prickles and Primrose series by UK author Lynette Creswell. Children love stories with familiar characters and going on new adventures with them via books, but even kids unfamiliar with the series won’t struggle due to the helpful page at the start that shows the main animal characters of the Briar Woods.
The
illustrations found in Hoglets’ Great Egg Hunt are colorful and bright,
and expressions on character faces are easy to identify. Doriano Strologo’s
attention to small details, like rabbit paw prints tracked across the pages and
texture across flowers, makes each page-turn engaging for young readers. I
appreciate that the graphics are created by a human, so children can see rough
edges and textures not found in AI generated versions.
The
format alternates full pages of text with plenty of white space and adorable
embellishments, with full-page illustrations. It leans towards being an early chapter book,
so I recommend this book as a read-aloud for kids under six and a read-along
for newly-independent readers. My review
copy is digital, but as always, I believe children’s books are at their best in
a format that allows for turning and touching real pages and doesn’t require charging.
The additional activity for readers to find the hidden egg on each page adds
more appeal (and further builds the case for reading on paper; excited fingers
touching eReaders tends to have consequences).
Hoglets’
Great Egg Hunt is
well-written, with a perfect mix of on-level and stretch words, and it’s
gloriously error free. Beyond the pure pleasure of the story, it could be fun to
discuss the small differences between American and UK writing and culture
highlighting, for example, cozy versus cosy, color versus colour, mom versus
mum, hard-boiled versus raw eggs for dyeing, and even “blimey” as a fun
exclamation.
This Mimi is now a fan and can’t wait to share Hoglets’ Great Egg Hunt with my granddaughters. But first, since we’re approaching the holidays, I will be going back to the series starter, Hoglets’ Christmas Magic, which also has an audiobook version with a narrator who has a delightful cross-the-pond accent.
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