NO HELP WANTED! Peter Easter Frog by Erin Dealey

"HERE COMES PETER EASTER FROG,

HOPPING DOWN HIS FAVORITE LOG.

"HIPPITY HOPPITY, EASTER'S ON ITS"--

CRASH! Peter Frog smacks into Turtle, who points out the obvious, that the worst bunny in the woods is more warm and cuddly than even the most enthusiastic ectothermic amphibian!

"HEY! YOU'RE NOT THE EASTER BUNNY!!!"

But Peter Frog insists that he has qualifications. For one thing, he can hop as far as the Easter Bunny. Unabashedly he begins to compose his own theme song about an Easter frog slogging through the bog, squishity-squashity--well, you get the idea!

"WHY SHOULD BUNNY HAVE ALL THE FUN?"

And the other animals seem fired up about getting into the egg-delivery gig. Cow offers to carry the Easter basket, hooked on one horn, and Turtle takes a ride on Cow's wide back. Sheep Dog and a few of his followers flock to join the procession, along with a ground squirrel who claims he specializes in hiding things. Hi Ho, Hi Ho! It's down the road they go behind Peter Easter Frog until they come to an underpass, where at the end of the dark tunnel they see.... a burly Easter Rabbit with a basket and a big scowl!

"PETER WHO-DEE WHATTTT??"

"I am THE BUNNY!"

But all's well that ends with a happy expansion of the Easter-egg delivery franchise, in Erin Dealey's Peter Easter Frog, with one unusual but successful Easter Rabbit apprenticeship program successfully completed. Award-winning artist G. Brian Karas provides the comical mixed media illustrations which portray a finally happy Easter Day and give kids some giggles along the way in this unusual Easter Rabbit tale. Says School Library Journal, "A great addition to Easter book collections for the youngest readers."