All Aboard! Bunny Bus by Ammi-Joan Paquette

How do you get to the Easter Parade?

"HURRY! DON'T BE LATE!"

The Bunny Bus is at the gate!

Little critters, brothers and sisters, scurry to squeeze aboard. This bus has big ears, a cottony tail, and a smile with big chompers. What could it be but the Bunny Bus.

But as more and more boarders climb on, things become a bit tight inside. The little riders get worried.

"WE NEED MORE ROOM!"

BOOM!

It's a small explosion! Eggs, carrots, fox kits, bunnies, and kitty cats all tumble out! The Bunny Bus is out of commission!

But not to worry, after all--all the bus needs is a quick overhaul, and they're on their way and ready for the parade in a critter cavalcade, in Ammi-Joan Paquette's Bunny Bus (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.) In the style of Richard Scarry's cute pastel critter pal stories, artist Lesley Breen Withrow's illustrations show the little celebrants arriving for the Easter Parade right on time.

Costumed Canines? Dogs on Parade by Barbara Joosse

WE'RE ON PARADE!

We came to show off our diggity best.

Prancing poodles and wizardly wire terriers get dressed, some happily, some not so much!--for a costumed dog parade. Each one has his or her own opinion about the whole operation. Walter is wary:

I SHOULD BE FIERCE. I KNOW THAT. BUT COULD I HIDE BEHIND YOUR LEG?

...A PARADE? BUT I DON'T WANT ANYONE TO SEE ME. I WANT TO DISAPPEAR.

IS THIS IT?
THANK YOU.
I'M A--GHOST!

At last all the canines are in costume in Caldecott-winner Barbara Joosse's Dog Parade (Harcourt, 2011). It's pooches proudly on parade, with Gracie-pants, Lovie, Fritzie, Tinkles, Weenie, Jack, and even the unwilling Walter, incognito under his ghostly shroud, proudly strutting their stuff. Joose's deft rhyming text, and artist Eugene Yelchin's playful pictures of pooches with lots of personality (guess how Tinkles got his name and what Weenie wears) make this one a comic romp for canine lovers.