By Margaret Wise Brown
A little bunny finds an egg in the spring grass and spends the whole day wondering what's inside, until a duckling hatches and the two become friends.
A little bunny is on his own one spring morning when he comes across an egg lying in the grass. He has no idea what could be inside. He knocks on it, pushes it, rolls it around, and calls out to it, and still it won't open and won't answer. All that wondering wears him out, so he curls up next to the egg and falls asleep. While he sleeps, a duckling finally pecks its way out. The bunny wakes up nose to nose with a brand-new duckling, and the two of them spend the rest of the day together.
Margaret Wise Brown wrote 'Goodnight Moon,' and this has that same hush to it — dreamy and gentle, more mood than plot, with Leonard Weisgard's soft spring paintings glowing on every page. Not much happens, and that's the charm: one small creature, one big question, a nap, and a friend by the end. It works as a non-religious Easter book for the youngest child at the table, and it reads just as well as a quiet bedtime story any other time of year.