A gatefold surprise reveals the Easter Rabbit. Side borders feature busy rabbits making their unusual eggs and, in a border above, the Robinas family drama unfolds. Spring is everywhere in gorgeous illustrations framed with pussy willows, flowering vines and flowers. Hoppi keeps it safe and warm until the baby bird hatches, and when the Easter Rabbit arrives, he chooses the empty blue eggshell to reward Hoppi for his kindness. Discouraged, he goes into the woods to think when a blue robinas egg tumbles out of its nest.

If Hoppi can make the best Easter egg, he will get to help the Easter Rabbit deliver the eggs on Easter morning. Jan Brettas lovable bunny hero, Hoppi, and her remarkable Easter Rabbit will enchant readers as they pore over illustrations filled with dazzling eggs made by Flora Bunny, Aunt Sassyfrass and others. 'From cave paintings to Norwegian sleighs, to Japanese gardens, I study the traditions of the many countries I visit and use them as a starting point for my children's books.' Review:īook Description Hardcover.

Together with her husband, Joe Hearne, who is a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Jan visits many different countries where she researches the architecture and costumes that appear in her work. 'I'm delighted and surprised when fragments of these beautiful images come back to me in my painting.' 'It was overwhelming to see the room-size landscapes and towering stone sculptures, and then moments later to refocus on delicately embroidered kimonos and ancient porcelain,' she says. The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope others as well, that such places might be real.'Īs a student at the Boston Museum School, she spent hours in the Museum of Fine Arts. Now I try to recreate that feeling of believing that the imaginary place I'm drawing really exists. She says, 'I remember the special quiet of rainy days when I felt that I could enter the pages of my beautiful picture books. During the summer her family moves to a home in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts.Īs a child, Jan Brett decided to be an illustrator and spent many hours reading and drawing. Jan lives in a seacoast town in Massachusetts, close to where she grew up. With over forty million books in print, Jan Brett is one of the nation's foremost author illustrators of children's books.

The easter egg by jan brett